9月3日商务英语
2008年09月03日
hardscrabble; to top out
今日单词：
| 单词 | 中文释义 | 英文释义 | 例句 |
| hardscrabble | 勉强糊口的（形容词） | (adjective) Barely earning enough to live; surviving but not making progress; marginal | EXAMPLE: The soil was bad for agriculture and there was very little water, so people in the remote arid mountains had difficult, hardscrabble lives. 这种土壤不利于农业，水量又很少，所以在这片偏远而贫瘠的山区，人民生活困难，勉强糊口。 |
今日短语：
| 短语 | 中文释义 | 英文释义 | 例句 |
| to top out | 停止增长（非正式用语） | (INFORMAL) To reach the end of a period of increase; to stop increasing and either stay level or start to decline | EXAMPLE: On the stock market the company's share price was expected to continue to rise for several months and then to top out at one hundred, staying at that level for a while. 公司的股价预计将持续增长数月，然后在100元的价位上停止上涨，并持续一段时间。 |
