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EKE
Traducere în limba română
eke1 verb tranzitiv
(rar) to eke out a adăuga la; a lungi, a prelungi, a înnădi; a umple golurile (cu gen.);
to eke out one’s existence a o încropi, a o duce de azi pe mâine;
to eke out the lion’s skin with the fox’s a îmbina puterea cu viclenia;
to eke out the soup with water a lungi supa cu apă.
eke2 adverb
(înv.) aşijderea, de asemenea; în plus, pe deasupra.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the White Mouse check.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
During the early summer, in the last days of the famine, he met Lip-lip, who had likewise taken to the woods, where he had eked out a miserable existence.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
Microbes eking out an existence on granite are also more likely to have genes linked with mobility, a trait that allows them to seek out better micro-environments when necessary.
(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)
There were some hooks in the beams of the ceiling, the use of which I did not divine then; and some lockers and boxes and conveniences of that sort, which served for seats and eked out the chairs.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
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