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subsistence

/suhb-sis-tuhns/US // səbˈsɪs təns //UK // (səbˈsɪstəns) //

生存,生计,维持生计,生活费

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or fact of subsisting.
    • : the state or fact of existing.
    • : the providing of sustenance or support.
    • : means of supporting life; a living or livelihood.
    • : the source from which food and other items necessary to exist are obtained.
    • : Philosophy. existence, especially of an independent entity.the quality of having timeless or abstract existence.mode of existence or that by which a substance is individualized.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounprovisions for survival
Synonyms
livelihood生活,生计,民生,生活方式ration定额,口粮,配给,配额sustenance寄托,寄托物,寄托品,给养affluence富裕,富裕程度,富足,富裕度aliment饮食,营养品,饲料,饮食方面alimentation营养,饮食,营养品,营养学bread面包capital资本,首府circumstances情况,环境,境况,情形competence能力,职权,权限,功力earnings收入,收益,收益情况,收入情况existence存在,存在的,存在感,存在的问题food食物fortune财富,运气,命运,幸运gratuity小费,酬金,奖金,赏金income收入,收益,收入情况,收入方面independence独立性,独立,独立自主,独立的keep保持,保持保持legacy遗产,遗留问题,遗赠,遗留living生活,活,活的,活活maintenance维护,维持,维修,维修保养means途径,意思是,意思是说,办法money钱,钱财,钱的问题,钱款necessities必需品,必要性,生活必需品,必要的东西nurture抚育,培养,培育,养育pension养老金,退休金,养恤金,抚恤金property财产,属性,物业,财物provision提供,提供服务,提供的,提供的服务resources资源,资源方面,资源方面的riches财富,财物,财利,财源salary薪资,薪金,薪水,薪薪salt盐,盐份,盐分,盐业substance物质,物体,物质的,物质上support支持,支助,支撑,支持率upkeep保养,维护,维持,养育victuals食品,消费品,粮草,饮食wages工资,工钱,工薪,工资方面wealth财富,财物wherewithal本钱,财源,资金来源,资源bread and butter面包和黄油,面包和奶油,面包与黄油,馒头和黄油

Examples

  • Last year, she received a Fulbright US Scholar Award to return to subsistence fishing villages outside the Brazilian city of Recife where she had organized a US-Brazil student project in the summer of 1965.

  • They were just subsistence farmers and they wanted to be left alone.

  • It is natural that rural Guatemalans or subsistence farmers in Kenya, facing drought or scorching heat, would seek out someplace more stable and resilient.

  • Income allows us in one period of time be able to pay our bills, be able to have subsistence in our life.

  • For farmers who are mainly focused on subsistence farming, the upside includes optimizing underutilized vast pieces of land, earning extra income and getting access to market through Komaza’s wood processing and sales operations.

  • These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.

  • Committee on Natural Resources draft bill discussion—“The Alaska Native Subsistence Co-Management Demonstration Act of 2014”

  • The absence of a minimum wage law results in many workers earning below subsistence levels.

  • Hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers work hard to obtain every calorie they eat.

  • Moreover, the settlements rely for their subsistence on profligate funding and services provided by the state of Israel.

  • It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.

  • It has no connection as yet with the question of the total available means of subsistence.

  • The citizens, on a short notice of 20 days, were deprived of the means of gaining a subsistence.

  • According to Moro custom the fruit of a manʼs labour belongs to the Datto who gives the man a subsistence.

  • Thus he could readily obtain the means of subsistence by aid of the arts and weapons employed by him in the tropical forests.