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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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，如果你非常非常贫穷，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。

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”可以非正式地使用，而“living hand to mouth”就更加严肃了。