Eke
[iːk] or [ik]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.
(adv.) In addition; also; likewise.
(n.) An addition.
編輯:沃尔夫冈
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Help, increase, augment, raise
ANT:Stop, diminish, stint, withhold, drain, exhaust
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解釋/意思:
adv. in addition to: likewise.
v.t. to add to or increase: to lengthen.—n. E′king act of adding: what is added.—Eke out to supplement: to prolong.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Hire facounde eke full womanly and plain, No contrefeted termes had she To semen wise. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Reflects the new Veneering crest, in gold and eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- In this state of affairs it occurred to Mrs General, that she might 'form the mind,' and eke the manners of some young lady of distinction. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- No; his heart was bound up in his work only: that was the end for which his failing life was to be eked out by hers. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He had previously been getting $80 a month, and had eked this out by copying plays for the theatre. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They eked out this food supply by hunting. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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