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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Society may subsist between those who ale our inferiors by birth or by personal qualities, but those who have these advantages should not abuse them.
  社会或许会在那些在出生或人品方面不及我们的人中间生存，但是拥有这些优点的人也不应该滥用它们。
• But can finance subsist, being completely divorced from physical economy?
  但是，金融果真能够完全脱离实体经济而独立存在吗？
• Old customs still subsist in the country.
  该国仍存留着古老的习俗。
• 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。