朝不保夕的英文:
[Literal Meaning]
morning/not/secure/evening
not to know in the morning what may happen in the evening

[解释]
早晨不能知道晚上会变成什么样子或发生什么情况。形容情况危急,难以预料。

[Explanation]
to be in a precarious state

[例子]
城市中的贫民工作辛苦,生活条件很差,过着朝不保夕的生活。

[Example]
The poor in the city work hard with bad living conditions and lead a precarious life.

[英文等价词]
on someone's or something's last logs

参考例句:
  • He earns a precarious living as a window washer
    他靠做擦窗工维持着朝不保夕的生活。
  • He succeeded, after a fashion, in hurrying her back to the domicile of which her tenure had become so insecure
    他好不容易将她匆匆带回住处,在那里她的栖宿已经是朝不保夕了。
  • He holds his life on a precarious tenure
    他过着朝不保夕的生活。
  • She felt the insecurity of her tenure of her brother's hospitality
    她感到,她在她弟弟府上的居留权已朝不保夕。
  • They lived precariously on the income from a few small investments.
    他们依靠些微投资中的收入,过着朝不保夕的生活.
  • They live precariously on the income from a few small investment.
    他们依靠些微投资中的收入,过著朝不保夕的生活。
  • Did he gain his precarious bread by some petty trade, by menial toil, by violence, or by theft?
    他究竟是在做小生意,当奴仆,还是靠打家劫舍来获得朝不保夕的口粮呢?
  • Before liberation,I was always wandering with my family from place to place, making a precrious living.
    解放前,我经常和家里人一起到处流浪,过着朝不保夕的生活。
  • The Slovaks, who had been used as a pawn by Germany, obtained a precarious autonomy
    曾被德国用来做棋盘上的卒子的斯洛伐克人,获得了朝不保夕的自治。

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