subsists

英 [səbˈsɪsts]

美 [səbˈsɪsts]

v.  (尤指靠有限的食物或钱)维持生活，度日; 存在; 有效
subsist的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 勉强糊口;勉强度日
  If peoplesubsist, they are just able to obtain the food or money that they need in order to stay alive.
  1. 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。
  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。

双语例句

• This plant subsists in water holes only during the rainy season.
  这种植物只有雨季在水坑里出现。
• This section is mainly about such issues as the relationship between subject matter punishment and the third person, right subjects when the third person infringes upon subject matter, the relationship between title retention and compulsive enforcement and the bankruptcy of the party while title retention subsists.
  主要研究了标的物处分与第三人的关系，第三人侵害标的物时的权利主体，所有权保留与强制执行的关系以及所有权保留存续期间当事人破产的处理等问题。
• There is perhaps, no people or community, now existing, which subsists entirely on the spontaneous produce of vegetation.
  现在也许没有完全靠采集野生植物维持生活的人民或社会了。
• Copyright nevertheless subsists in the work by virtue of this section and the organization is the first owner of that copyright.
  作品藉本仍然有版存在，而是版的第一有人。
• But this cannot be done while the original product subsists;
  但在原来的产品存在时，却无法做到这一点；
• In other words, a functional not dialectical relation subsists between forms of knowledge and forms of society.
  换句话说，在认识形式同社会形态之间存在着功能的而非辩证的关系。
• Because of sloping land in large area, great food productive potential subsists in this area, as long as the potential is exploited rationally to furnish food security and social economic sustainable development is possible.
  但由于坡耕地面积大，存在着巨大的粮食生产潜力，只要合理开发，就有可能为该地区社会经济的可持续发展提供最基本的粮食安全保障。
• Compared with precast assembly beam, it subsists of some advantages such as good integrity behavior and seismic behavior.
  与预制装配式梁相比，具有整体性好、抗震性能好等优点。
• Culture is created from man, and man subsists based on culture; as a kind of selection of culture, curriculum also deeply feels the influence of culture.
  文化因人而生，人因文化而存；课程作为对文化的选择亦真切地感受到了文化的影响。
• The hinge is that the enterprise subsists on suiting the development of data communication.
  适应数据通信的发展是通信企业生存的关键。