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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But can finance subsist, being completely divorced from physical economy?
  但是，金融果真能够完全脱离实体经济而独立存在吗？
• The living things on the earth could not subsist on Mars.
  地球上的生物不可能在火星上生存。
• 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。
• We provide for each kingdom that resides upon the land and within a10 mile radius, you should find everything you require to subsist.
  我们供应给居住在大地和10英里半径内的每一王国，你会找到你维生所需的每一事物。
• 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。
• 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。
• Old customs still subsist in the country.
  该国仍存留着古老的习俗。