English translation for "朝不保夕"

[ zhāobùbǎoxì ] 
hang by a thread; anything may happen any time.; be not worth a day's purchase; be in a precarious state -- in imminent danger of death; cannot keep the wolf from the door; live in constant fear for one's livelihood; live from hand to mouth; not to know at dawn what may happen by dusk; not to know in the morning what may happen in the evening; may collapse any day; may fall any moment 短语和例子
过着朝不保夕的生活 make a precarious living; 病人已朝不保夕。 the patient's condition is critical

Related Translations:

病人已朝不保夕:  the patient's condition is critical

过着朝不保夕的生活:  make a precarious living

那时候我们总是过着朝不保夕的生活:  we always lived from hand to mouth in those days

Example Sentences:

	1.	He holds his life on a precarious tenure . 他过着朝不保夕的生活。
	2.	The patient 's condition is critical . 病人已朝不保夕。
	3.	We always lived from hand to mouth in those days . 那时候，我们总是过着朝不保夕的生活。
	4.	She felt the insecurity of her tenure of her brother's hospitality . 她感到，她在她弟弟府上的居留权已朝不保夕。
	5.	And the steamboats, though their reign was longer, were ephemeral craft . 汽船的时代虽然比较长些，还是一种朝不保夕的工具。
	6.	The slovaks, who had been used as a pawn by germany, obtained a precarious autonomy . 曾被德国用来做棋盘上的卒子的斯洛伐克人，获得了朝不保夕的自治。
	7.	Did he gain his precarious bread by some petty trade, by menial toil, by violence, or by theft ? 他究竟是在做小生意，当奴仆，还是靠打家劫舍来获得朝不保夕的口粮呢？
	8.	He succeeded, after a fashion, in hurrying her back to the domicile of which her tenure had become so insecure . 他好不容易将她匆匆带回住处，在那里她的栖宿已经是朝不保夕了。
	9.	Families with old people began to wonder when the ancient fathers and mothers would die, and babies whined . 有老人的人家看着年迈的父母朝不保夕，婴儿幼童发出有气无力的哭声。
	10.	The family lived a precarious existence 这家人过着朝不保夕的生活。

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