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单词 subsist
释义
subsist
verb[I]
formal
uk
/səbˈsɪst/us
/səbˈsɪst/
to get enoughfoodormoneytostayalive, but no more:
维持生计；勉强生存
Theprisonerswere subsistingonadietofbreadandwater.犯人们靠面包和水勉强度日。
Synonyms
exist
survive
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Coping and not coping
  • balancing act
  • be left holding the babyidiom
  • bear up
  • bite
  • bite off more thanyoucan chewidiom
  • cut
  • hand
  • head
  • hold
  • juggling
  • keep body and soul togetheridiom
  • keep the wolf from the dooridiom
  • keepyourhead above wateridiom
  • keep/holdyourend upidiom
  • manage
  • sink or swimidiom
  • stretch tosomething
  • stride
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  • takesomethinginyourstrideidiom
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(Definition ofsubsistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

subsist| American Dictionary

subsist
verb[I]
us
/səbˈsɪst/
toobtainenoughfoodormoneytostayalive:
Thesepeoplesubsist onrice,beans,fruits, andvegetables.
(Definition ofsubsistfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsubsist

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The expectation tosubsistthrough the use of one's natural assets is therefore a reasonable expectation.
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This applies not just to everything that subsists, but to all order, every law, and every foundation of something's being true and good.
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Certainly the latter, especially when too abstract, have difficulty in triggering processes of imagination, and oftensubsistquite apart from them.
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For all intents and purposes, what constituted the subsistence economy operated as a closed economy, communities subsisting on what they had to hand.
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The high frequency of caries likely suggests that these individuals were subsisting on a mixed diet.
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As a result, linear representations of base-superstructure relations had subsisted in the literature, generating more slogans than informed analysis.
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They are now so poor that they are starving, frequently subsisting on soup made of fatback boiled in water.
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This work is unfortunately lost, and all that remains of it are the traces whichsubsistin other treatises in which it has been used.
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But it does mean that the acquisition of private property must not interfere with the rights of individuals tosubsist.
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Private ownership could persist and inequalities wouldsubsist, but man, and especially woman, would be free to fulfil their natures.
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They did so specifically because, having lost their land and employment, they sought khedivial charity to enable them and their families tosubsist.
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Rather than the earth serving as a shelter or incubator for life, life here subsists under constant and almost completely uncontrollable threat from the outside.
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They were village farmers, living in palisaded towns and subsisting largely on the corn, squash, and beans raised by the women in communal gardens.
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It could be more lucrative tosubsistby robbery than to seek work.
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The expectation tosubsistthrough the use of one's natural assets is equally reasonable.
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