subsist

verb

1. （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。
2. 存在；有效
   to exist; to be valid
   1. The terms of the contract subsist.
      合同条款有效。

1. VERB 勉强糊口;勉强度日
   If people subsist, 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。

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。
3. Polar bears usually subsist on seals, which they hunt from a platform of sea ice.
   北极熊通常在浮冰上抓捕海豹作为食物。
4. Old systems still subsist in the country.
   国内仍存在着古老的习俗。
5. 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。
6. We provide for each kingdom that resides upon the land and within a10 mile radius, you should find everything you require to subsist.
   我们供应给居住在大地和10英里半径内的每一王国，你会找到你维生所需的每一事物。
7. 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。
8. But public debt is ultimately a private burden: governments subsist by taxing private income and wealth, or through the ultimate capital levy of inflation or outright default.
   但归根结底，公共债务是一种私人负担：政府要通过向私人收入和财富征税维持下去，要么就是通过通货膨胀或直接违约这种终极的资本征税形式。
9. The family must subsist on a single income while still paying the taxes that finance public schools.
   这个家庭必须依靠单一的收入生存，同时还要缴纳税金以资助公立学校。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. Squirrels subsist on nuts during the winter.
    松鼠冬天靠坚果度日。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. She has to get a casual work to subsist.
    她不得不找一个临时工作维持生活。
21. Old customs still subsist in the country.
    该国仍存留着古老的习俗。
22. 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。
23. It may be basic fare, but for urbanites who subsist on greasy food every day, a healthy change is a big holiday pursuit indeed.
    这也许只是基本费用，但是对于那些吃多了油腻食物的都市人来说，一次健康的改变，也是旅途中最大的追求了。
24. 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。
25. I will be very firm, subsist of very patient ground, see those hellion get day Qian?
    我会很坚强，很耐心地活下去，看到那些坏人受到天谴吗？
26. Cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
    只有通过相互的让步，社会生活才能继续下去。
27. 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？
28. People in the far north subsist chiefly on fish and meat.
    住在北极地区的人主要以鱼和肉为生。
29. 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。
30. Psychological a few jubilates, this time what thing rule is good, because we make a station, not be to make rubbish station, it is to want can the station of subsist.
    心理少许欢喜，这年代什么事都规矩一点好，因为我们做站不是做垃圾站，是要能活下去的站。

verb

1. 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