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

• Main protection on citizen's right to subsistence.
  对公民生存权的重点保护。
• People's Rights to Subsistence and Development
  人民的生存权和发展权
• Citizens 'lawful earnings, savings, houses and other means of subsistence;
  （一）公民的合法收入、储蓄、房屋和其他生活资料；
• Governments have an interest in seeing minimum wages kept above subsistence level.
  政府关心的是看到最低工资保持在维持生活水准之上。
• 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。
• We moved from foraging and subsistence agriculture to the development of crafts and trade.
  我们从食物和生计农业，发展到手工业和贸易。
• 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。
• Nature is the foundation for the subsistence and development of human beings and the Earth is our common homeland.
  大自然是人类生存与发展的基础，地球是我们共同的家园。
• Those most in need will be the landless, both rural and urban, and marginal subsistence farmers.
  最需要帮助的人群，是城乡的无地者和处于温饱边缘的农民。