美 [ɡet baɪ]
维持生计：指勉强维持生活，勉强度日。
隐瞒过去：指在不被发现、批评或惩罚的情况下继续进行。
尽量少做，少付出努力：指以最少的努力或成就来取得成功。
get by // [ getting got gotten gets ]
动词词组 If you can get by with what you have, you can manage to live or do things in a satisfactory way. 勉强过活; 勉强对付过去
I'm a survivor. I'll get by.
我是个幸存者。能勉强过活。
... for 把...以为是 ... get by 通过; 过得去, (委曲)过活 get through 度过(时间); (使)通过(测验), give away 泄露; 赠予 ...
... for 把...以为是 ... get by 通过; 过得去, (委曲)过活 get through 度过(时间); (使)通过(测验), give away 泄露; 赠予 ...
... get around/round走动，旅行；(信息)传开 get by通过，经过 get in进入；收获（harvest），收集 ...
... get at 理解；意指；贿赂；到达；着手处理 get by 通过；过得去；过活；获得认可 Jenny必须要学会（）她对公众事物的恐惧。 ...
通过；过得去；过活；获得认可
I'm a survivor. I'll get by.
我是个幸存者。能勉强过活。
Excuse me, I can't get by.
劳驾，请让开点路。
How does she get by on such a small salary?
她靠这点微薄的工资怎么过活？
So he says if he makes five sales a day he can get by. Tassembedo passes by one lady, Salimata Ouedrago, wearing the Women's Day cloth from last year.
VOA : standard.2010.03.08
Right. But you're a upstanding modern Muslim but you're just trying to get by, you're just trying to do the right thing by your own faith tradition.
是的，如果说您是个非常优秀的现代穆斯林,但是您只是勉强过得去，您只是在试图做正确的事,根据您自己的信仰传统。
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I try to get by with what I receive and what I earn.
我努力用我的所得来维持生活。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 对你而言，钱是？
This means you should not risk losing something you have by trying to get more of something you do not have.
VOA : special.2010.06.13
Anders Wilhelmson says people can get back ten times what they paid by using the resulting fertilizer to grow vegetable gardens.
VOA : special.2010.03.15
But if the patient can get by without insurance that rule doesn't mean anything.
Business is very profitable, but it has learned to get by without as much labor.
What is the degree businesses and consumers are dependent on debt just to get by.