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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Polar bears usually subsist on seals, which they hunt from a platform of sea ice.
  北极熊通常在浮冰上抓捕海豹作为食物。
• 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。
• The whole village had to subsist on corn meal and a little milk supplied by the relied organizations.
  整村人都只能靠一点玉米饭和救济组织发放的一点牛奶来勉强维持生活。
• 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。