You don't have any savings, then you're just scraping by.

你没有任何积蓄的话，那你就是勉强糊口。

He soon got another job as a dishwasher and started scraping by.

他很快找到了另一份洗碗工的工作，开始勉强度日。

Since he lost his job in August, I know that he's just been scraping by.

自从他八月份失业以来，我知道他只是勉强糊口罢了。

He admitted that his economic plans were a failure and his people, millions of them already barely scraping by, are suffering.

他承认自己的经济计划是失败的，他的人民——数百万勉强能够糊口的人民——正在遭受痛苦。

They're scraping by on seven, eight thousand a year.

他们一年只挣可怜的七八千。

Literally, shift your reality from scarcity to abundance, from tunneling to imagination, from scraping by to genuine opportunity.

从字面上看，将你的现实从稀缺转变为丰富，从隧道转变为想象，从勉强度日转变为真正的机会。

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。

He hears something outside the front door — the cat is back surprisingly quickly, scraping its paws by the threshold and sounding like it's been caught in a steel trap.

他听见门外有动静——猫回来早了，站在那儿喵呜，见没人给它开门，就开始在门槛上磨爪子，就好像它有什么预感。