プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
かろうじて【辛うじて】
barely; narrowly
辛うじて列車に間に合った
I barely managed to catch the train.
辛うじておぼれずに済んだ
He narrowly [barely] escaped drowning.／He had a narrow [hairbreadth] escape from drowning.
辛うじて試合に勝った
We won the game by a narrow [small] margin.
辛うじて危機を乗り越えた
It was (only) with great difficulty that he weathered the crisis.／《口》 It was a close call.
仕立て物の内職をして辛うじて生計を立てていた
She 「eked out a living [made a bare living] by taking in sewing.