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subsist v.供给食物；维持生活；生存；供养 (1) 他主要靠蔬菜和水果维持生命。(2) 别担心你的孩子们，我可以供养他们。(3) 他们这点工资怎么糊口？(4) 她不得不找一个临时工作维持生活。(5) 地球上的生物不可能在火星上生存。(6) 科学家们发现地球上的生物在月亮上无法生存。 To subsist is to feed yourself, or keep yourself going, especially when you just barely manage to do so. A hunger striker might subsist on only water for weeks, and people in developing countries often have to subsist on small rations of rice or grain. Subsist comes from the Latin word subsistere, "to stand firm," but sometimes subsisting makes people feel like they are barely standing, rather than firmly standing.

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英 [səb'sɪst] 美 [səb'sɪst] (1) He subsisted mainly on vegetables and fruit.(2) Don't worry about your children whom I can subsist.(3) How do they manage to subsist on such a low wage?(4) She has to get a casual work to subsist.(5) The living thing on the earth can not subsist on mars.(6) Scientists find that the living creatures on the earth can't subsist one the moon. When you subsist, you keep yourself alive. Since most airlines have stopped serving food, many travelers are forced to subsist on little packets of pretzels, even on long flights. 1[VERB 动词]勉强糊口；勉强度日 If people subsist, they are just able to obtain the food or money that they need in order to stay alive.   [V on n]  [V]  [FORMAL 正式]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。

英语单词	subsist
英美音标	英 [səb'sɪst] 美 [səb'sɪst]
中文释义	v.供给食物；维持生活；生存；供养
英语例句	(1) He subsisted mainly on vegetables and fruit. (2) Don't worry about your children whom I can subsist. (3) How do they manage to subsist on such a low wage? (4) She has to get a casual work to subsist. (5) The living thing on the earth can not subsist on mars. (6) Scientists find that the living creatures on the earth can't subsist one the moon.
中文例句	(1) 他主要靠蔬菜和水果维持生命。 (2) 别担心你的孩子们，我可以供养他们。 (3) 他们这点工资怎么糊口？ (4) 她不得不找一个临时工作维持生活。 (5) 地球上的生物不可能在火星上生存。 (6) 科学家们发现地球上的生物在月亮上无法生存。
vocabulary简明	When you subsist, you keep yourself alive. Since most airlines have stopped serving food, many travelers are forced to subsist on little packets of pretzels, even on long flights.
vocabulary扩展	To subsist is to feed yourself, or keep yourself going, especially when you just barely manage to do so. A hunger striker might subsist on only water for weeks, and people in developing countries often have to subsist on small rations of rice or grain. Subsist comes from the Latin word subsistere, "to stand firm," but sometimes subsisting makes people feel like they are barely standing, rather than firmly standing.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]勉强糊口；勉强度日 If people subsist, they are just able to obtain the food or money that they need in order to stay alive. [V on n] [V] [FORMAL 正式] 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。

Subsist People Manage Living Earth Alive Barely 英