engelska-svenska översättning av scrape

skrapaen
Alltför många fortsätter att skrapa ihop sitt levebröd i något slags vindskyffe som hämtat ur La Bohéme.Too many continue to scrape together a living in a kind of La Bohème garret. För ögonblicket är den grekiska regeringen på defensiven. Den försöker skrapa ihop pengar för att kunna minska sin skuld.At the moment, the Greek Government is on the defensive; it is trying to scrape money together so that it can reduce its debt. Det är en skam att människor som knappt kan skrapa ihop tillräckligt för att hålla sig levande skall pressas att betala tillbaka de rikas lån.It is an outrage that people who can barely scrape together enough to keep body and soul together should be squeezed to pay back loans to the rich.

To draw , along while exerting pressure
To remove by drawing an object along in this manner
To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface
To barely manage to achieve
To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen. always "scrape together"? needs an example of "scrape" alone--
To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page
To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument
To express disapprobation of or to silence by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with ''down''
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch
A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons
An awkward set of circumstances
A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage
A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape
A shallow pit dug as a hideout

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