subsist

英 [səbˈsɪst]

美 [səbˈsɪst]

v.  (尤指靠有限的食物或钱)维持生活，度日; 存在; 有效

现在分词：subsisting　第三人称单数：subsists　过去分词：subsisted　过去式：subsisted　

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BNC.20653 / COCA.17205

牛津词典

verb

• （尤指靠有限的食物或钱）维持生活，度日
  to manage to stay alive, especially with limited food or money
  1. Old people often subsist on very small incomes.
     老人往往靠十分微薄的收入艰难度日。
• 存在；有效
  to exist; to be valid
  1. The terms of the contract subsist.
     合同条款有效。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 勉强糊口;勉强度日
  If peoplesubsist, they are just able to obtain the food or money that they need in order to stay alive.
  1. The prisoners subsisted on one mug of the worst quality porridge three times a day...
     犯人们每日三餐靠一碗稀粥度日。
  2. Almost every employee must moonlight in second jobs simply to subsist.
     只是为了维持生计，几乎每个职员都要偷偷地做兼职。

英英释义

verb

• support oneself
  1. he could barely exist on such a low wage
  2. Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?
  3. Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
  Synonym:existsurvivelive

双语例句

• Cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
  只有通过相互的让步，社会生活才能继续下去。
• It may be basic fare, but for urbanites who subsist on greasy food every day, a healthy change is a big holiday pursuit indeed.
  这也许只是基本费用，但是对于那些吃多了油腻食物的都市人来说，一次健康的改变，也是旅途中最大的追求了。
• Almost every employee must moonlight in second jobs simply to subsist.
  只是为了维持生计，几乎每个职员都要偷偷地做兼职。
• I will be very firm, subsist of very patient ground, see those hellion get day Qian?
  我会很坚强，很耐心地活下去，看到那些坏人受到天谴吗？
• Old customs still subsist in the country.
  该国仍存留着古老的习俗。
• Old systems still subsist in the country.
  国内仍存在着古老的习俗。
• Much of the hunger and poverty along with starvation of humans occurs in Africa due to a lack of waterfall to produce enough food to subsist.
  在非洲，由于缺乏降水来生产足够多食物维生，所以发生了许多饥馑贫困及饥荒。
• A wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably.
  维持一个工人及其家庭的最低工资。
• People in the far north subsist chiefly on fish and meat.
  住在北极地区的人主要以鱼和肉为生。
• For a split second I thought I should let them know why I had to come here, so that they would let me subsist here.
  有一瞬间我想也许我应该让他们知道我为什么必须来这里，没准他们会愿意让我在这儿待下去。