PHRASE
勉强维持生计
If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
例句
That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides ...
那迫使农民们努力在陡峭的山坡上勉强维持生计。
He ekes out a living with a market stall...
他靠摆摊勉强糊口。