汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 糊口
糊口
to scrape a meager living / to get by with difficulty / variant of 糊口[hu2 kou3]
〈动〉勉强维持生活:养家~|摆小摊赚几个钱~。
hú/hù kǒu
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

没有不变的经济后援,很难想象若何过上轻松简单的糊口,更不用说富庶奢嚣张的糊口了。

Without a strong and steady economic background, one could never imagine an easy and simple life, let alone an affluent and luxurious one.

通常仅仅糊口就耗掉劳工工资的一半多。

Labourers often use up over half their wage just to eat.

没人疼爱也没人照顾,他们过着一种毫无意义、勉强糊口的日子。

Unloved and uncared-for, they live a meaningless hand to mouth existence.

我有妻子和两个孩子,我们靠我挣的钱勉强糊口

I have a wife and two children and we live from hand to mouth on what I earn.

无论家庭成员有几多,蕴蓄的钱越多,人们的糊口就越好。

Wherever there is a large family, the more money that is put to one side and saved, the better.

他女儿也孤高地谈到他是何等地享受事情与家庭糊口

His daughter, too, spoke with pride at how much he had enjoyed work as well as family life.

我能想象得到数以千计的酒店,娱乐业工人流落街头,茫然不知如何糊口如何养家。

I could imagine those thousands of hotel and resort workers and others now in limbo, not knowing how they would support themselves and their families.

赌场是一个出亡所,臭名昭著的人物谁寻求粉碎他本身的糊口编制。

The casino is a haven for unsavory characters who seek to corrupt him to their way of life.

你必须汗流满面,才得以糊口。所以,获取知识、智慧和道德自由似乎需要极大的代价。

By the sweat of your brow, shall you get bread to eat. So knowledge or wisdom or perhaps moral freedom seems to come at a very high price.

其后塾师年老病逝,伦文叙因而失生,但仍一面操持糊口,一面专心钻研经典。

Old died later Shu Shi, Kung Fu and thus loss of health, but still the one hand perform household subsistence on the one hand to concentrate on studying classics.