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

• If one deals with itcasually, he will find it hard to subsist or more depressing.
  如不当真应答则难以生存或更添苦闷。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They are becoming habituated to human presence as they increasingly subsist on a diet of wasted human food and cats.
  它们对人类的出现已经逐渐的习以为常，因为它们越来越依赖人类食物残渣和猫为食。