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make ends meet

勉强维持生计；收支相抵

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勉强维持生计；收支相抵

IN A SENTENCE

To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse.
为了勉强糊口，其中一人得在管材仓库搬管子、清理院子。

来源：OANC source document oanc-906028c6effd6ae2130ad715段 oanc-906028c6effd6ae2130ad715:p2s4OANC-1.0.1 UTF-8 (datasets-2026-09-25); source file OANC/data/written_2/technical/government/Media/Law_Schools.anc. OANC unrestricted-use terms: https://anc.org/data/oanc/

On this tour, X has donated sets of tickets to the non-profit Sweet Relief Musicians Fund to provide assistance to all types of career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems.
在这次巡演中，X乐队向非营利组织Sweet Relief Musicians Fund捐赠了成套门票，以帮助各类因疾病、残疾或年龄相关问题而难以维持生计的职业音乐人。

来源：X performs at the TLA in Philadelphia · Wikinews contributors段 wikinews:106969:4830507:s18Wikinews contributors; https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=X_performs_at_the_TLA_in_Philadelphia&oldid=4830507; CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; excerpt unchanged; Chinese translation by Codex-assisted Expression editorial.

勉强维持生计；收支相抵

IN A SENTENCE

They take weekend shifts to make ends meet while the bakery is being renovated.
面包店装修期间，他们靠周末加班来维持生计。

来源：Expression Original Learning Examples — 口语必备库 — batch32 · Expression Editorial Team段 editorial-base-make-ends-meetOriginal English example and Chinese translation written for Expression; no third-party sentence text is reproduced.