He's a subsistence farmer living from hand to mouth.

他是一个生活仅够糊口的农民。

Many single-parent families in this area are living hand to mouth.

这个地区有许多单亲家庭是勉强糊口度日的。

There are many people who live hand to mouth in Mexico.

在墨西哥有很多人过着勉强糊口的生活。

We can't handle another kid. We're living hand to mouth as it is.

我们养不起第三个孩子了。我们现在生活相当拮据。

Apart from the little money they make by selling baskets in the local market, they live a hand to mouth existence with no land to farm and no animals to rear.

除了在当地市场子赚取一点小钱之外，他们只能过着勉强糊口的日子，没有土地可耕种，也没有牲畜可饲养。

You live hand to mouth, something bad happens, you borrow, things get worse and worse and worse.

你勉强度日，坏事发生，你借钱，情况变得更糟，之后更糟，更糟。

You know, if you're very, very poor, you have no extra money, you live hand to mouth, and from time to time, bad things happen.

你知道，如果你贫穷，你不会有一点多余的钱，你只能勉强度日，有时，坏事还会发生。

Living hand to mouth means that you just have enough money to survive.

糊口度日意思是你的钱刚够生存。

And where scraping by can be used a little more informally when you're low on money, living hand to mouth is almost always serious really.

当你没有钱的时候，“scraping by”可以正式地使用，而“living hand to mouth”就更加严肃了。

And you can express this same idea with this idiom, to live hand to mouth.

你可以用这个习语表达相同的想法，糊口度日。

Many people in the world today live hand to mouth.

当今世界上有许多人只能勉强糊口。

We understood, and we were living hand to mouth to bootstrap that thing.

我们明白，当时我们是勉强维持生计来启动那件事的。

I mean people who, people who live hand to mouth die soon in famines.

我是说那些勉强糊口的人，在饥荒中会很快死去。

They have to make ends meet -- they have to earn enough money to pay for the things they need. Some even live from hand to mouth -- they only have enough money for the most important things.

他们必须维持生计——他们必须赚到足够的钱来支付他们需要的东西。有些人甚至糊口——他们的钱只够买最重要的东西。

The riff-raff drank from hand to mouth of improperly aged liquor, and it was a mark of caste to serve one's " corn" not less than six or eight months old.

地痞流氓从手到嘴都喝着陈年不当的酒，给至少六八个月大的“玉米”服务是种姓的标志。

The act of smoking involves the fingers and possibly contaminated cigarettes coming in contact with the lips and thus increasing the risk of transmission of virus from hand to mouth.

吸烟的行为涉及手指和可能受污染的香烟与嘴唇接触， 从而增加了病毒从手传播到嘴巴的风险。

You already live hand to mouth with the food, the gas bills, the electric bills, everything's going up and our money is still stocked at the same dot.

你已经过着捉襟见肘的生活，食物、燃气账单、电费账单， 所有东西都在涨价， 而我们的收入却依然停滞不前。

And let me leave you with some good advice: " Of the hand to mouth one lose often the soup." Something to remember.

让我给你留下一些好的建议：“勉强糊口的人会失去汤。”这是值得记住的。

The German poet Goethe once said that " he who cannot draw on 3000 years is living from hand to mouth" .

德国诗人歌德曾说：“不能汲取三千年岁月的人，只能勉强糊口”。

It seems his wife wasn’t happy about living hand to mouth and she divorced him, leaving young Kelly broke and heartbroken.

他的妻子似乎对勉强糊口的生活不满意， 因此与他离婚，让年轻的凯利伤心欲绝。