subsisted

英 [səbˈsɪstɪd]

美 [səbˈsɪstɪd]

v.  (尤指靠有限的食物或钱)维持生活，度日; 存在; 有效
subsist的过去分词和过去式

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。

双语例句

• After returning to england, he lived in london, where he and his wife subsisted by selling their essays.
  他回英国后就在伦敦住下，夫妻两人卖文章过日子。
• Instead, they stuck it out and subsisted on mango juice.
  最终，她们决定还是呆在车上，靠芒果汁补充体力。
• They subsisted on fish, game, and the products of a crude horticulture, and lived in villages, which were generally protected by a stockade.
  他们以捕鱼、打猎及原始园艺为生；住在大多用栅栏防卫起来的村落中。
• And Franz Kafka, well, he basically subsisted on two long naps each day.
  那弗朗茨卡夫卡呢？嗯他基本每天都要睡两大觉。
• Before liberation he subsisted on wild potatoes.
  解放前他靠吃野薯度日。
• In the cold months, when the reptiles hid, she subsisted on an Aboriginal standby, witchetty grubs& white, caterpillar-size moth larvae that live in the roots of Mulga trees.
  在寒冷的几个月里，由于爬行动物都躲了起来，她只能靠澳洲土著的应急食品–在澳大利亚围篱树根部生活的木蠹蛾幼虫维生。
• Survivors of the air crash subsisted on wild fruits. THE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS AND PROBLEMS OF SIX METEORITE EVENTS SINCE CENOZOIC ERA
  新生代6次陨击事件研究及存在问题
• Agglomeration size of electronic manufacture industry in Guangdong province continual increased most years, the agglomeration parameter from 1992 to 2003 was 4.98 showed that electronic manufacture industry in Guangdong province subsisted scale rewards increase in whole.
  集聚规模在大多数年份呈现持续增长，1992年至2003年的集聚参数为4.98，说明广东省电子产业整体存在规模报酬递增现象。
• The friendship which has subsisted between us now half a century, the harmony of our political principles and pursuits have been sources of constant happiness to me through that long period.
  你我之间的友谊迄今已经走过了半个世纪，我们在政治原则与追求上取得的协调在过去的漫漫岁月中为我带来了源源不断的快乐。
• It will be observed that I have assumed, that the labourers are always subsisted from capital: and this is obviously thefact, though the capital needs not necessarily be furnished by aperson called a capitalist.
  人们可能注意到了，我一直假设劳动者总是靠资本而生存，实际情况显然就是这样，尽管资本并不一定非得由称为资本家的人提供。