scrape through

基本解释

he has decreed that only graduates with good degrees will receive training grants, excluding those who barely scrape through, who had qualified until this year.
他规定，教育部只为拥有高学历的毕业生提供教师培训经费补助，而那些成绩勉强达到合格要求的人（他们今年才能拿到学位证）则没有资格获得补助金。
The opposition parties boycotted the recent lower-house vote, but the ruling coalition's majority in the upper chamber has allowed the bill to scrape through and become law.
反对党抵制最近的下议院投票，但是上议院中执政的（政党）联盟多数勉强通过该法案最终成为法律。
Ford’s cash position is stronger—company insiders reckon that it might be able to scrape through on its own resources—but its chief executive, Alan Mulally, was not on Capitol Hill just for the ride.
（相对而言）福特的现金状况较好一些，公司知情人士认为福特能够靠自身财力侥幸度过这场危机。然而通用总裁艾伦•穆拉利并非在国会山走下过场而已，他也希望请求经济援助。

We have scraped through any opponent that comes on our way, and by the special grace of God we will scrape through any opponent we get in the final,".

But, even if she manages to scrape through in November, the junior senator for California will be a diminished figure.
ECONOMIST: California’s Senate race
Were Mr de la Rua capable of delivering several months of political calm, and were the dollar to weaken, Argentina might yet scrape through.
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If you scrape through an examination, you just succeed in passing it. If you scrape through a competition or a vote, you just succeed in winning it.