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
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- Old people often subsist on very small incomes.
老人往往靠十分微薄的收入艰难度日。
- Old people often subsist on very small incomes.
- 存在;有效
to exist; to be valid- The terms of the contract subsist.
合同条款有效。
- The terms of the contract subsist.
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.- 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。 - 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。
- The prisoners subsisted on one mug of the worst quality porridge three times a day...
英英释义
verb
- support oneself
- he could barely exist on such a low wage
- Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?
- Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - Old systems still subsist in the country.
国内仍存在着古老的习俗。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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? - But public debt is ultimately a private burden: governments subsist by taxing private income and wealth, or through the ultimate capital levy of inflation or outright default.
但归根结底,公共债务是一种私人负担:政府要通过向私人收入和财富征税维持下去,要么就是通过通货膨胀或直接违约这种终极的资本征税形式。 - She has to get a casual work to subsist.
她不得不找一个临时工作维持生活。