subsist
vi. (靠很少的錢或食物)維持生活,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...
犯人們每日三餐靠一碗稀粥度日。
Almost every employee must moonlight in second jobs simply to subsist.
只是為了維持生計,幾乎每個職員都要偷偷地做兼職。
1. support oneself;
A club cannot subsist without members.
俱樂部沒有會員就無法存在.
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
怒氣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.
我很抱歉地告訴他我所有的一點款子不夠維持我們的生活.
Gannet - To subsist by the wings of his virtue and merit, having little land to rest upon.
塘鵝 - 以自己美德和功績為翅膀而繼續生存的人, 漂泊而沒有定所.
Old systems still subsist in the country.
國內仍存在著古老的習俗.