hand-to-mouth

The worst-paid live a hand-to-mouth existence without medical or other benefits .

收入最低者过着只能勉强糊口的日子，没有医疗补助或其他福利。

I won 't have you living hand-to-mouth like me , you hear ?

我不想让你像我一样无隔宿之粮，听到了吗？

Grace Mbakwa , her husband and eight children once lived hand-to-mouth in Cameroon .

GraceMbakwa，她丈夫，还有8个孩子，以前在喀麦隆只能勉强果腹。

Arts organisations have often lived hand-to-mouth and have long had to become more business-savvy to guarantee their survival .

艺术组织经常只能勉强维持，长期以来，它们不得不变得更有商业头脑，以保证自己的生存。

Here are the facts : Single mom , preco-cious child , hand-to-mouth business , imminent poverty , virtual homelessness .

事实真相是：单亲妈妈，早熟的孩子，仅足糊口的生意，迫在眉睫的贫穷，实质上的无家可归。

Critics argue that the government 's hand-to-mouth policymaking is self-defeating , and illustrates its general lack of planning .

评论家认为政府的这种勉强过得去的政策制定方式将事与愿违，而且说明其整体缺乏计划性。

From being a poor , struggling , little hand-to-mouth enterprise , it had become celebrated , and overcrowded with customers .

这原本是一家穷得叮当响、苦巴苦结勉强糊口的小吃店，现在名声大振、顾客盈门了。

It is the product of the shape of our bodies , how hand-to-mouth behaviour is built into ( and rewarded in ) our brains and the psychology of habit .

它是我们身体构造的产物，是手对嘴行为如何在人类大脑中建立以及习惯心理的产物。

A government forced to live hand-to-mouth , funded by stopgap resolutions for a few weeks at a time , hardly looks like one that can calmly negotiate the radical overhaul of the American state that is needed .

一个被迫依赖每几周制定一次权宜之计以勉强维持生计的政府似乎无法平心静气地协调必需政策，彻底检修美国政府。

Over a week of meetings , Singapore-based traders and executives told me about a slowdown in demand in China and India ; pretty bearish sentiment ; plentiful supply ; mounting inventories ; hand-to-mouth consumers in Asia , and defaults and deferrals in shipments .

在为期一周的会议上，新加坡交易商和企业高管告诉我，中国和印度需求放缓；情绪相当悲观；供给充足；库存不断增加；亚洲消费者仅能糊口，交货违约和延期。