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

• You do sometimes wonder whether it mightn't be easier to move to a desert island and subsist on berries and fresh air.
  你有时肯定想知道是否移居到荒岛，依靠浆果和新鲜空气为生的生活会变得容易。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Squirrels subsist on nuts during the winter.
  松鼠冬天靠坚果度日。
• 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。
• Old customs still subsist in the country.
  该国仍存留着古老的习俗。
• 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。