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病人已朝不保夕。The patient's condition is critical.

家人过着朝不保夕的生活。The family lived a precarious existence.

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作为一个艺术家，他过的是朝不保夕的生活。He earned a precarious living as an artist.

那时候，我们老是过着朝不保夕的生活。We always lived from hand to mouth in those days.

他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活。They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps.

他们依靠些微投资中的收入，过着朝不保夕的生活。They lived precariously on the income from a few small investments.

在太平洋的孤岛上，生命就像悬在刀刃上一样，总是朝不保夕。Life on an isolated Pacific island is eternally poised on a knife-edge.

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全球共有大约10亿人朝不保夕，在生活的边缘挣扎求存，稍有不慎，就会滑入深渊。Globally, around 1 billion people are already living on the margins of survival.

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。The Slovaks, who had been used as a pawn by Germany, obtained a precarious autonomy.

核武时代使我们陷入恐慌，我们的生命几近朝不保夕。The Atomic Age has caught us in a web of fear. Our lives seem so impermanent and uncertain.

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?。Did he gain his precarious bread by some petty trade, by menial toil, by violence, or by theft?

局势在发展，致使民主国家的地位朝不保夕。The situation is developing in such a way as to make the position of the democracies precarious.

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收入下降、朝不保夕的工人可能拖累脆弱的经济陷入到严重的衰退中。Struggling workers, whose wages also are being squeezed, could drag a fragile economy back into deep recession.

在肯尼亚北部和东部荒寂边境地区生活的人们努力维持着他们朝不保夕的生活。In the country's isolated northern and eastern border lands, families have always clung to a precarious existence.

随着资本主义的发展，它让大多数的人对马克思无产阶级的朝不保夕的生活有了新的看法。As capitalism has advanced it has returned most people to a new version of the precarious existence of Marx's proles.

这对于原本政权朝不保夕的菅直人来说，无疑提供了一个暂且得以喘息偷安的时刻。This is the original power precarious Naoto Kan is no doubt provide a breathing space for the time being to seek temporary ease in the moment.

我猜这就是霍布斯所谓的,"污秽不堪,朝不保夕,野蛮不化",第四个我记不得了,三十年战争时期的生活就是如此I guess this is what Hobbes meant by "Nasty, short, and brutish," Or whatever the fourth was. I don't remember, but what life was in the Thirty years' War, that was the way it was.

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想一想，在那些食物供应已经朝不保夕，农村到处是自给农民，而且应对紧急情况的能力已脆弱不堪的地区，卫生会遭受怎样的影响。Imagine the impact on health in areas where the food supply is already precarious, rural areas are populated with subsistence farmers, and the capacity to cope with any emergency is already fragile.

如果说普通百姓对于经济危机的体会集中表现在担心一纸辞令，生活立刻朝不保夕的忧虑，那处于危机影响最直接的艺术品行业需要担心的远比裁员来得复杂。Since the anxiety of unemployment presents the reflection of common people in the economic crisis, in art industry, all the mess should be considered is much more complicated than reducing the staff.