subsists的中文翻译是什么意思

VERB勉强糊口;勉强度日

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。