scrape together

基本解釋

If a city has enough engineers in its tax base, the bike mechanics can scrape together a living alongside them.
如果一個(gè)城市在其稅基上有足夠的工程師，自行車機(jī)械能把他們網(wǎng)羅到一起生活。
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.
在過去的幾個(gè)月里，我曾睡在朋友家的沙發(fā)上，在城際巴士上完成稿件，靠著東拼西湊來繳納租房的保證金。
Schools had to be cleared of rubble and of displaced people; families had to scrape together money for uniforms and fees.
學(xué)校必須清除廢墟并且讓無家可歸的人們離開，很多家庭則必須為制服和費(fèi)用節(jié)衣縮食。

Would-be terrorists will now have to scrape together the grades to get into a real college.
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If you scrape together an amount of money or a number of things, you succeed in obtaining it with difficulty.