subsistence
n. 存活,生存; 生计,维生之道
Subsistence is the condition of just having enough food or money to stay alive.
...below the subsistence level...
低于最低生活水平
The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence.
现在的生活水平几乎快要无法维持生计。
In subsistence farming or subsistence agriculture, farmers produce food to eat themselves rather than to sell.
Many black Namibians are subsistence farmers who live in the arid borderlands.
许多生活在土地贫瘠的边境地区的纳米比亚黑人农场主的收成仅够维持自身的口粮。
1. minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting;
2. a means of surviving;
3. the state of existing in reality; having substance
They could gain their subsistence in the mountains.
他们在山里能够活下去.
Subsistence is not possible in such conditions.
在这种情况下是无法生存的.
Most people survive on subsistence rice farming.
大多数居民依靠种植稻米生存.
Salaries were below subsistence level for the Europeans in the East.
薪金不足以维持留居东方的欧洲人的生活水平.
In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.
在任何情况下不得剥夺一个人民自己的生存手段.