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

• She has to get a casual work to subsist.
  她不得不找一个临时工作维持生活。
• 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。
• Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not subsist without this source of revenue.
  没有这部分财源，新闻报纸、商业电台以及电视公司就无法生存。
• They are becoming habituated to human presence as they increasingly subsist on a diet of wasted human food and cats.
  它们对人类的出现已经逐渐的习以为常，因为它们越来越依赖人类食物残渣和猫为食。
• 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。
• Psychological a few jubilates, this time what thing rule is good, because we make a station, not be to make rubbish station, it is to want can the station of subsist.
  心理少许欢喜，这年代什么事都规矩一点好，因为我们做站不是做垃圾站，是要能活下去的站。
• Their metabolism, engineered to subsist on meager amounts of food, has continued for centuries, making them easy keepers with low maintenance needs.
  其新陈代谢，工程食品微薄的生活费，已经持续了几百年，使它们容易饲养与低维护需求。
• 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。
• By in large a vegan diet is recommended however light infused structures require so much less food that one literally can learn to subsist from the air never requiring the need to eat again.
  总体上我们建议一个素食食谱，不过，融光的身体结构需要的食物是如此之少，以至于事实上一个人可以学会从空气中维生而不再需要进食。
• The family must subsist on a single income while still paying the taxes that finance public schools.
  这个家庭必须依靠单一的收入生存，同时还要缴纳税金以资助公立学校。