subsistence
n. 存活,生存; 生計,維生之道
Subsistence is the condition of just having enough food or money to stay alive.
...below the subsistence level...
低於最低生活水平
The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence.
現在的生活水平幾乎快要無法維持生計。
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.
許多生活在土地貧瘠的邊境地區的奈米比亞黑人農場主的收成僅夠維持自身的口糧。
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.
他們在山裡能夠活下去.
Subsistence is not possible in such conditions.
在這種情況下是無法生存的.
Most people survive on subsistence rice farming.
大多數居民依靠種植稻米生存.
Salaries were below subsistence level for the Europeans in the East.
薪金不足以維持留居東方的歐洲人的生活水平.
In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.
在任何情況下不得剝奪一個人民自己的生存手段.