美[s?b?s?st?ns] 1 . The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence .
現(xiàn)在的生活水平幾乎快要無法維持生計。
來自柯林斯例句
2 . Many black Namibians are subsistence farmers who live in the arid borderlands.
許多生活在土地貧瘠的邊境地區(qū)的納米比亞黑人農場主的收成僅夠維持自身的口糧。
來自柯林斯例句
3 . Many families are living below the level of subsistence .
許多家庭難以度日。
來自《權威詞典》
4 . She had no means of subsistence and was dependent on charity.
她沒什么謀生手段,只能依靠救濟.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5 . They were living barely above the level of subsistence .
他們的生活水平勉強在最低水平線以上.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
1.minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting;
social security provided only a bare subsistence
2.a means of surviving;
farming is a hard means of subsistence
3.the state of existing in reality; having substance
