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

• 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。
• 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。
• Much of the hunger and poverty along with starvation of humans occurs in Africa due to a lack of waterfall to produce enough food to subsist.
  在非洲，由于缺乏降水来生产足够多食物维生，所以发生了许多饥馑贫困及饥荒。
• 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。
• 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。
• Squirrels subsist on nuts during the winter.
  松鼠冬天靠坚果度日。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。