get by

英 [ɡet baɪ]

美 [ɡet baɪ]

勉强过活; 勉强应付

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 勉强过活；勉强应付
  If you canget bywith what you have, you can manage to live or do things in a satisfactory way.
  1. I'm a survivor. I'll get by...
     我挺过来了，我能应付下去。
  2. Melville managed to get by on a small amount of money.
     梅尔维尔仅靠一点点钱勉强度日。

英英释义

verb

• escape potentially unpleasant consequences
  1. She gets away with murder!
  2. I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
  Synonym:get offget awayget outescape
• pass or move in front of
  1. Bride's Biscuit got by the other dogs to win the race
• come to terms with
  1. We got by on just a gallon of gas
  2. They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
  Synonym:copemake outmake docontendgrappledealmanage

双语例句

• Economically, senior citizens often struggle just to get by.
  在经济上来说，老年人常是挣扎着勉强度日。
• This money is barely enough for me to get by ( or manage) a few days.
  这几个钱只够我敷衍几天的。
• Not everybody is lucky enough to have the right family connections, but sometimes, you can be surprised with how far you can get by asking your family and friends for some work experience.
  不是每个人都会非常幸运的拥有好的家庭关系，但有时候，你也会惊讶从家人和朋友身上也能获得不少工作经验呢。
• There was such a crowd outside the shop window that the young woman with the pram couldn't get by.
  橱窗外面有一大群人，推婴儿车的那位年轻妇女无法过去。
• Most simple programming projects, of course, can get by with very trivial lexers.
  当然，大部分简单编程项目使用非常普通的lexer就可以完成。
• We've just enough money to get by till pay day.
  我们手头的钱只能勉强维持到发薪的日子。
• He had to sleep on his brother's couch on the Lower East Side to get by.
  此前他只能在纽约市下东区的哥哥家睡沙发。
• A truck blocked the greater part of the pathway, so that we couldn't get by.
  卡车把小路阻塞了一大半，我们无法通过。
• In the first decade of this new century, we have been tested by war and by tragedy; by an economic crisis and its aftermath that has left millions out of work, and poverty on the rise, and millions more just struggling to get by.
  在这个新世纪的第一个10年，我们受到了战争和悲剧的考验；经济危机及其后果使百万民众失业，贫困在上升，还有数百万的人在挣扎度日。
• So, you can do more than just get by, you can get ahead. And stay ahead!
  所以，你可以做的更好，你可以领先并一直领先。