今日单词:
单词 | 中文释义 | 英文释义 | 例句 |
hardscrabble | 勉强糊口的(形容词) | (adjective) Barely earning enough to live; surviving but not making progress; marginal | EXAMPLE: The soil was bad for agriculture and there was very little water, so people in the remote arid mountains had difficult, hardscrabble lives. 这种土壤不利于农业,水量又很少,所以在这片偏远而贫瘠的山区,人民生活困难,勉强糊口。 |
今日短语:
短语 | 中文释义 | 英文释义 | 例句 |
to top out | 停止增长(非正式用语) | (INFORMAL) To reach the end of a period of increase; to stop increasing and either stay level or start to decline | EXAMPLE: On the stock market the company's share price was expected to continue to rise for several months and then to top out at one hundred, staying at that level for a while. 公司的股价预计将持续增长数月,然后在100元的价位上停止上涨,并持续一段时间。 |