subsist
vi. (靠很少的钱或食物)维持生活,生存下去
If people subsist, they are just able to obtain the food or money that they need in order to stay alive.
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。
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. support oneself;
A club cannot subsist without members.
俱乐部没有会员就无法存在.
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
怒气可以依靠任何食物存活下去.
I was very sorry to tell him that the little I had would not subsist.
我很抱歉地告诉他我所有的一点款子不够维持我们的生活.
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.
Old systems still subsist in the country.
国内仍存在着古老的习俗.