| 1. | We had barely enough to live on in those grim depression years .
在经济萧条的那些严酷岁月里，我们的收入只勉强够维持生活。 |
| 2. | Their wages are barely enough to keep the wolf from the door
他们的工资勉强够维持生活的 |
| 3. | She earns barely enough to find herself in the necessaries of life
她挣得钱很少，还不足以维持自己的生活。 |
| 4. | After repaying her debt in stools , she was left with 2 cents a day , barely enough to feed herself
在偿还凳子的债务后，她每天只剩两美分，几乎喂不饱自己。 |
| 5. | A sis family was terribly poor . with a hovel for a home and a few scrawny animals to depend on , there was barely enough to keep body and soul together
几年前她还是挂着名的贫困户，没有个像样的房子，少得可怜的几头牲畜都不够一家人的生计。 |
| 6. | Manorama used to own more than 8 acres of farm land , but is now left with less than 1 acre and a small paddy ( rice ) crop - barely enough to feed her family through the year
马洛马曾有8英亩多的农地，不过现在剩不到1英亩，和一片小小稻田，根本不够一家糊口。 |
| 7. | They were first constructed in the yuan dynasty . the plots snake from the foot of the hill right to the top : the biggest measures less than one acre , and the smaller ones are barely enough to accommodate two or three rows of seedlings
脊梯田开造于元代，从山脚一直盘绕到山顶，大者不过一亩，小者仅插下两三行禾苗，形成层层梯田绕山村的瑰丽景观。 |
| 8. | That is too small a cushion to compensate for a dramatic disruption in supply from iran ( which pumps 3 . 9m b / d ) , nigeria ( 2 . 3m b / d ) or iraq ( 2 . 1m b / d ) , and barely enough to make up for another terrible hurricane in the gulf of mexico ( 1 . 5m b / d )
如果伊朗(日产油390万桶) ，尼日利亚( 230万桶)或者伊拉克( 210万桶)的供应发生中断，这个数字是远远不够作为缓冲的，只够勉强应付有一个墨西哥湾可怕的飓风(日损失150万桶) 。 |
| 9. | All those young men in paris with incomes of twenty or thirty thousand francs , that is with barely enough to get by in the circles they move in , are all quite aware , when they are the lovers of a woman like marguerite , that their mistress couldn t even pay the rent or her servants on what they give her
“在巴黎，那些一年只有两三万法郎收入的年轻人，也就是说，那些勉强能够维持他们自己那个圈子里的生活的年轻人，如果他们有一个像玛格丽特那样的女人做情妇的话，他们心里很明白，他们给她的钱还不够付她的房租和仆役的工资。 |
| 10. | The transport fare hikes and the fall - below bank fee will affect a large sector of the population , especially the lower - income masses . many of them have yet to find a job after being laid off during the economic downturn , while others are people who live from hand to mouth , earning barely enough to pay rent and keep their families afloat
公共交通费涨价和银行征收最低存款服务费影响层面广,中下层阶级人士首当其冲,其中好些是被裁退还没找到工作,有些则是收入仅仅足够养家供屋,属于手停口停的阶层。 |
