通过来自私人赞助的额外收入，这家俱乐部才勉强维持运营。

With extra income from private sponsorship, the club is just about managing to ___keep its ___head ___above ___water.

她开销很大，得到的帮助却很少，因此她必须努力挣扎才能勉强维持生计。

She had a lot of expenses and very little help, so she had to struggle just to ___keep her ___head ___above ___water.

经济衰退之后，许多小企业主发现很难维持经营。

After the economic downturn, many small business owners are finding it hard to ___keep their ___heads ___above ___water.