scrape through

基本解釋

he has decreed that only graduates with good degrees will receive training grants, excluding those who barely scrape through, who had qualified until this year.
他規(guī)定，教育部只為擁有高學(xué)歷的畢業(yè)生提供教師培訓(xùn)經(jīng)費(fèi)補(bǔ)助，而那些成績(jī)勉強(qiáng)達(dá)到合格要求的人（他們今年才能拿到學(xué)位證）則沒有資格獲得補(bǔ)助金。
The opposition parties boycotted the recent lower-house vote, but the ruling coalition's majority in the upper chamber has allowed the bill to scrape through and become law.
反對(duì)黨抵制最近的下議院投票，但是上議院中執(zhí)政的（政黨）聯(lián)盟多數(shù)勉強(qiáng)通過該法案最終成為法律。
Ford’s cash position is stronger—company insiders reckon that it might be able to scrape through on its own resources—but its chief executive, Alan Mulally, was not on Capitol Hill just for the ride.
（相對(duì)而言）福特的現(xiàn)金狀況較好一些，公司知情人士認(rèn)為福特能夠靠自身財(cái)力僥幸度過這場(chǎng)危機(jī)。然而通用總裁艾倫?穆拉利并非在國(guó)會(huì)山走下過場(chǎng)而已，他也希望請(qǐng)求經(jīng)濟(jì)援助。

We have scraped through any opponent that comes on our way, and by the special grace of God we will scrape through any opponent we get in the final,".

But, even if she manages to scrape through in November, the junior senator for California will be a diminished figure.
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Were Mr de la Rua capable of delivering several months of political calm, and were the dollar to weaken, Argentina might yet scrape through.
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If you scrape through an examination, you just succeed in passing it. If you scrape through a competition or a vote, you just succeed in winning it.