With Betty's salary they barely made ends meet.

靠贝蒂的工资，他们简直无法糊口。

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I spoke to farmers who only ten years ago barely made ends meet as subsistence farmers.

与我交谈的农民仅十年前还在从事仅能糊口的自给型农业。

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Families made ends meet because more women worked (and their real incomes did rise) and because they were able to borrow money to maintain their spending.

家庭能够实现收支平衡是因为更多女性参加了工作(而且她们的实际收入的确增加了)，并且他们能够借钱以维持花销。

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He made ends meet by doing p.r. and political work but focused in the mid-1990s on land use and met Fox, who was running political campaigns in Massachusetts.

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