scrape together

常见例句

If a city has enough engineers in its tax base, the bike mechanics can scrape together a living alongside them.
如果一个城市在其税基上有足够的工程师，自行车机械能把他们网罗到一起生活。
For the past few months, I've been sleeping on friends' sofas, meeting copy deadlines on intercity coaches, attempting to scrape together the money for a deposit while house-hunting.
在过去的几个月里，我曾睡在朋友家的沙发上，在城际巴士上完成稿件，靠着东拼西凑来缴纳租房的保证金。
Schools had to be cleared of rubble and of displaced people; families had to scrape together money for uniforms and fees.
学校必须清除废墟并且让无家可归的人们离开，很多家庭则必须为制服和费用节衣缩食。

Would-be terrorists will now have to scrape together the grades to get into a real college.
ECONOMIST: Pakistan and Britain
Although these small operators charge quite steep prices, even poor households scrape together the money rather than live in the dark.
ECONOMIST: A survey of Energy
Thousands of excited teenyboppers scrape together their hard-earned cash to get there.
FORBES: Career Lessons I Learned From Katy Perry