这些日子我们勉强糊口。

We lived from hand to mouth in those days.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 这些 zhèxiē these
=2 日子 rìzi
  1. day
  2. a (calendar) date
  3. days of one's life
=2 日子 rìzǐ
  1. (literary) son of the Sun
  2. son of the Sun
3 我们 wǒmen we; us; ourselves; our
4 勉强 miǎnqiǎng
  1. to do with difficulty
  2. to force sb to do sth
  3. reluctant
  4. barely enough
=5 糊口 húkǒu
  1. to scrape a meager living
  2. to get by with difficulty
=5 糊口 húkǒu variant of 糊口 húkǒu