勉强够维持生活，勉强糊口

scratch a living───谋生

earn a living───谋生；活命

eke a living───维持生计

crash diving───急速下潜

scrape in───勉强进入；勉强考进

scraped in───勉强进入；勉强考进

scrapes in───勉强进入；勉强考进

He almost manages to scrape a living as an artist.───他靠当艺术家来勉强混口饭吃。

Then we will no longer be content to scrape a living just for ourselves, but we will see where and how we are needed.───每个月他还得给老板交钱，才能被允许离开工地，和老婆到黑市去倒卖去污粉来糊口。

I manage to scrape a living by selling my pictures.───我靠卖画口.

We see how you toil and often find it difficult to scrape a living, but all that will change.───我们看到了你的辛苦，以其你艰难的生活着，但是那些都会改变的。

They were forced to scrape a living by selling things on the streets.

Between 25 to 50 means you could scrape a living as a comic with appalling taste in T-shirts.

My family knew that however long and however hard they worked to scrape a living, they would always be poor.

I manage to scrape a living by selling my pictures.

So we've brought him along today to see how even these emigre Russian aristocrats and bourgeois can still scrape a living!