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

• 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。
• Many new college students subsist in dorms, and many of these dorms are coed.
  许多新的大学生生存在宿舍，和许多这些宿舍都是男女同校。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Old systems still subsist in the country.
  国内仍存在着古老的习俗。
• 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。
• Gannet-To subsist by the wings of his virtue and merit, having little land to rest upon.
  塘鹅－以自己美德和功绩为翅膀而继续生存的人，漂泊而没有定所。
• She has to get a casual work to subsist.
  她不得不找一个临时工作维持生活。
• Squirrels subsist on nuts during the winter.
  松鼠冬天靠坚果度日。