subsist

英 [səb'sɪst] 美[səb'sɪst]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词live exist survive

vi. 存在；维持生活
vt. 供养

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中文词源

subsist 维持生活，度日

sub-,在下，-sist,站立，词源同 stand,assist.引申比喻义勉强维持生活，度日等。

词态变化

第三人称单数: subsists;过去式: subsisted;过去分词: subsisted;现在分词: subsisting;

英文词源

subsist (v.): 1540s, "to exist;" c. 1600, "retain the existing state," from Middle French subsister and directly from Latin subsistere "to stand still or firm, take a stand, take position; abide, hold out," from sub "under, up to" (see sub-) + sistere "to assume a standing position, stand still, remain; set, place, cause to stand still" (see assist (v.)). Meaning "to support oneself" (in a certain way) is from 1640s. Related: Subsisted; subsisting.

双语例句

1. Old people often subsist on very small incomes.: 老人往往靠十分微薄的收入艰难度日。

2. 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。

3. The living things on the earth could not subsist on Mars.: 地球上的生物不可能在火星上生存.

4. We are unable to subsist without air and water.: 没有空气和水我们就活不下去.

5. A club cannot subsist without members.: 俱乐部没有会员就无法存在.

英英释意

1. support oneself;: "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

考试真题

During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on barely enough food allotted to them.

实用场景例句

Old people often subsist on very small incomes.: 老人往往靠十分微薄的收入艰难度日。

The terms of the contract subsist.: 合同条款有效。

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。

A club cannot subsist without members.: 俱乐部没有会员就无法存在.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.: 怒气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.: 我很抱歉地告诉他我所有的一点款子不够维持我们的生活.

Gannet - To subsist by the wings of his virtue and merit, having little land to rest upon.: 塘鹅 - 以自己美德和功绩为翅膀而继续生存的人, 漂泊而没有定所.

Old systems still subsist in the country.: 国内仍存在着古老的习俗.

They figured that the demons would not be able to subsist by themselves.: 清军则带着大部分达斡尔人一起南撤.

How do they manage to subsist?: 他们怎样糊口?

Many people in the world have to subsist on $ 1 a day.: 世界上的许多人每天收入仅仅1美元.

The Masai subsist on cattle blood and meat and milk and little else.: 马赛族人依靠牛血、肉、奶和很少的其他食物为生.

Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not subsist without this source of revenue.: 没有这部分财源,新闻报纸、商业电台以及电视公司就无法生存.

Don't worry about your children whom I can subsist.: 别担心你的孩子们,我可以供养他们.

Everything on earth wants to subsist, and should respect each other.: 万物都想生存、应当相互尊重.

The living things on the earth could not subsist on Mars.: 地球上的生物不可能在火星上生存.

We are unable to subsist without air and water.: 没有空气和水我们就活不下去.

He could subsist on bark and grass roots in the isolated island.: 在荒岛上他只能靠树皮和草根维持生命.

But can a certain order subsist in thee, and disorder in the All?: 但怎么可能在大全中无秩序, 而在你之中却存在某种秩序呢 ?

She has to get a casual work to subsist.: 她不得不找一个临时工作维持生活.

Patient of a leukaemia, how does ability have the courage of subsist.: 一个白血病患者, 怎么才能有活下去的勇气.

Photonic biology requires not sugar to subsist but instead relies upon light and love.: 光子生物体,并不需要血糖来维生,而相反是依赖光与爱来维生.

Polar bears usually subsist on seals, which they hunt from a platform of sea ice.: 北极熊通常在浮冰上抓捕海豹作为食物.

The anguish of life can mask calm subsist really with adamancy?: 人生的痛苦真的可以用坚强去掩盖镇定的活下去吗 ?

How can you subsist on such a small income?: 这么点收入你可怎么生活呀?

Squirrels subsist on nuts during the winter.: 松鼠冬天靠坚果度日.

People in the far north subsist chiefly on fish and meat.: 居住在极地的人们主要依靠鱼和肉维持生活.

Friendship can only subsist between equal.: 不平等无友谊.

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