Families eke out a living by growing what food they can and by fishing.

人们能在地上种点什么，就种点什么，加上打渔，勉强能维持生活。

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This excludes the subsistence farms where 4m black families eke out a living.

这不包括400万黑人家庭赖以维持生计的农场。

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In old China workers and peasants could hardly eke out a living, let alone send their children to school.

在旧中国，工人农民连生活都难以维持，更谈不上送子女上学了。

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Many of them are immigrants trying to eke out a living in what appear to be knockoff costumes.

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Together, they own two and a half acres of tangerine and olive trees, enough to eke out a living.

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The way the newspapers are all crashing and burning it's making it even trickier to eke out a living doing it.

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