subsistence

英 [səbˈsɪstəns]

美 [səbˈsɪstəns]

n.  勉强维持生活

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Collins.1 / BNC.9101 / COCA.10237

牛津词典

noun

• 勉强维持生活
  the state of having just enough money or food to stay alive
  1. Many families are living below the level of subsistence.
     许多家庭难以度日。
  2. to live below (the) subsistence level
     生活在基本生活水平线以下
  3. They had no visible means of subsistence.
     他们生计无着。
  4. subsistence agriculture/farming (= growing enough only to live on, not to sell)
     收成仅够自身口粮的自给农业
  5. subsistence crops
     生存作物
  6. He worked a 16-hour day for a subsistence wage (= enough money to buy only basic items) .
     他一天工作16个小时，工资仅够勉强维持生计。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 勉强维持生活;生存;存活
  Subsistenceis the condition of just having enough food or money to stay alive.
  1. ...below the subsistence level...
     低于最低生活水平
  2. The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence.
     现在的生活水平几乎快要无法维持生计。
• ADJ (农业或农业生产)收成仅够自身口粮的
  Insubsistencefarming orsubsistenceagriculture, farmers produce food to eat themselves rather than to sell.
  1. Many black Namibians are subsistence farmers who live in the arid borderlands.
     许多生活在土地贫瘠的边境地区的纳米比亚黑人农场主的收成仅够维持自身的口粮。

英英释义

noun

• minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting
  1. social security provided only a bare subsistence
• the state of existing in reality
• a means of surviving
  1. farming is a hard means of subsistence

双语例句

• First, the relationship between subsistence and development.
  一是生存与发展的关系。
• The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence.
  现在的生活水平几乎快要无法维持生计。
• Main protection on citizen's right to subsistence.
  对公民生存权的重点保护。
• Agriculture consists largely of subsistence farming and animal husbandry.
  在农业中占很大部分的是种植业和畜牧业。
• And farmer's rights are, in actuality, farmer's subsistence rights.
  而农民权利问题实际上就是农民生存权问题。
• The revolutionaries fought for the right of ethnic equality and the subsistence rights.
  其中革命派所关注的民权主要是民族的平等权和生存权；
• In america's ideal of freedom, citizens find the dignity and security of economic independence, instead of laboring on the edge of subsistence.
  在美国的自由理想中，公民们发现了经济独立带来的尊严和保障，而不是徘徊在生存边缘的辛苦劳作。
• A subsistence farmer may have overheads, but he needs few transaction services.
  自给自足的农民可能也有经营成本，但他需要的交易服务很少。
• Plenteous fresh water is the magnitude guarantee of the subsistence and society abidance development of human being.
  充足的淡水资源是人类生存和社会持续发展的重要保障。
• He is on the margin of bare subsistence.
  他正处在挨饿的边缘。