We don't make much money, but we are able to keep our heads above water.

尽管我们赚的钱不多，但我们能够做到不欠债。

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The few of us renegades that have evolved past living based on conventions and social norms are trying to keep our heads above water.

为了生存，我们跟随大流做社会普遍认可的事，而至少数人敢于不走寻常路。

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Everything now announces itself unannounced and in this lies the only hope we still have of being able to keep our heads above water in the future.

应作“每件事物现在都在宣示自己是未被宣示的，并且正是在这样的宣示与不宣示之中，存在著我们仅有的希望，希望我们将来能够免遭灭顶，维持生路。”

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"In these gloomy times where unemployment benefits are, for a number of us, the only means to keep our heads above water, the attack on them today is a real catastrophe, " it said.

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