subsist
发音
英 [səbˈsɪst]
美 [səbˈsɪst]
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- (靠很少的钱或食物)维持生活,生存下去
单词词源
subsist 维持生活,度日
sub-,在下,-sist,站立,词源同 stand,assist.引申比喻义勉强维持生活,度日等。
双语例句
- 1. Many already subsist on the mere threshold of survival .
- 许多人早已是仅仅能够维持生存。
- 2. And how do the poor subsist on such a meagre amount ?
- 穷人又是怎样靠这般小数目维持生活的?
- 3. More than two-fifths of all africans still subsist on $ 1.25 a day .
- 超过五分之二的非洲人仍然靠每天1.25美元艰难度日。
- 4. According to malthusian logic , if you improve people 's ability to subsist on low incomes , the subsistence income falls as it has in africa , mr clark points out .
- 根据马尔萨斯的逻辑,如果你改善人们依靠低收入生存的能力,维持最低生活的收入水平将下降克拉克指出,这就非洲目前的情况。
- 5. 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。