Our crops have failed this year so we can hardly eke out a living.

我们今年庄稼歉收，几乎无法维持生计。

These families eke out a living by collecting and selling recyclable items they find in the garbage.

这些家庭靠收集和出售可回收的物品维持生计。他们在垃圾里找到的。

Deeper in the depths of our gut city, the syntrophs eke out a living off the fermenters' trash.

在肠道城市的更深处，互营细菌以发酵细菌产生的废料维持生命。

Still, a handful of farmers remained, eking out a living here until just a generation ago.

尽管如此， 仍有少数农民留了下来， 直到一代人之前还在这里勉强维持生计。

People have been eking out a living here farming terraced fields for many generations, and it's still relatively poor.

这里的人们世世代代靠种田为生，仍然比较贫困。

Formal jobs in the industrial sector are actually decreasing, with informal labor the only option left for people to eke out a living.

工业部门的正式工作实际上正在减少，非正式劳动力是人们维持生计的唯一选择。

But mammals and some smaller vertebrates still managed to eke out a living, and as the Earth rebounded, there were suddenly a lot more niches to fill.

但哺乳动物和一些较小的脊椎动物仍然勉强维持生计，随着地球反弹， 突然有更多的生态位需要填补。

And, surprisingly, many species and businesses that eke out a living in the shadows of giants employ similar strategies to succeed in their respective dog-eat-dog worlds of intense competition for limited resources.

令人震惊的是，在巨大阴影下，很多物种和公司都会在这个弱肉强食的世界里竭尽全力地生存，各自使用着类似的策略成功地获取了有限的资源。

And it seems that the condors that lived in California were able to eke out a living, because they could eat the carcasses of marine animals, as well as the megafauna like mammoths and sloths.

居住在加利福尼亚州的秃鹰似乎能够勉强维持生计，因为它们可以吃海洋动物的尸体，以及猛犸象和树懒等巨型动物。