subsistence
subsistence
英[səbˈsɪstəns]美[səbˈsɪstəns]
n.存活，生存，生计，维生之道；
例句
They were living barely above the level of subsistence.他们的生活水平勉强在*低水平线以上。
Most of the population lives at subsistence level.大多数人过着勉强糊口的生活。
Their main mode of subsistence is hunting.他们主要以打猎为生。
Their subsistence comes from the sea.他们依赖海洋生活。
He is on the margin of bare subsistence.他正处在挨饿的边缘。
She had no means of subsistence and was dependent on charity.她没什么谋生手段,只能依靠救济.
Many families are living below the level of subsistence.许多家庭难以度日。
Malthus believed that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence.马尔萨斯认为人口的增长快过生活资料的增长.
Those most in need will be the landless, both rural and urban, and marginal subsistence farmers.*需要帮助的人群, 是城乡的无地者和处于温饱边缘的农民.
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。
英语六级真题
"My vision is for the subsistence farmer," Farrant says.
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B"The yield is never going to be high," Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
N-UNCOUNT
勉强维持生活;生存;存活
Subsistence is the condition of just having enough food or money to stay alive.
例句
...below the subsistence level...低于*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。ADJ
(农业或农业生产)收成仅够自身口粮的
In subsistence farming or subsistence agriculture, farmers produce food to eat themselves rather than to sell.
例句
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。英汉词典释义
n.
存活, 生存, 维生之道
He is on the margin of bare subsistence.他正处在挨饿的边缘。Their subsistence comes from the sea.他们依赖海洋生活。Their main mode of subsistence is hunting.他们主要以打猎为生。Most of the population lives at subsistence level.大多数人过着勉强糊口的生活。She had no means of subsistence and was dependent on charity.她没什么谋生手段，只能依靠救济。They were living barely above the level of subsistence.他们的生活水平勉强在*低水平线以上。英英词典释义
Noun
1. minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting;
"social security provided only a bare subsistence"2. a means of surviving;
"farming is a hard means of subsistence"3. the state of existing in reality; having substance
行业词典
体育： 衣食；
金融： *低限度生活水平；
