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

• 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。