英语释义

1. to use (something) as a way to stay alive to live on (something)
poor people subsisting on just one or two dollars a day The villagers subsist almost entirely on rice and fish. (humorous) My brother subsists on pizza.

片语

survive on靠…活下来；靠…生存

exist on靠…生存；靠…生活

英汉例句

• 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。

• it may be basic fare, but for urbanites who subsist on greasy food every day, a healthy change is a big holiday pursuit indeed.

  这也许只是基本费用，但是对于那些吃多了油腻食物的都市人来说，一次健康的改变，也是旅途中最大的追求了。

• the celebrations and the food of old will come and go, but nobody will be asked to subsist on seal or whale.

  庆典和传统食物依然会这样流传下去，但是没有人要求大家要靠海豹或鲸鱼活下去。

• squirrels subsist on nuts during the winter.

  松鼠冬天靠坚果度日。

• to make matters worse, they subsist on a diet heavy in foods fried in lard.

  让事情更糟的是，他们日常食用的食品都被猪油煎炸过。

• one parent, usually the mother, drops out of the workforce and devotes her life to teaching. the family must subsist on a single income while still paying the taxes that finance public schools.

  家庭以单份收入为生，同时还要为公立学校缴纳税收。

• the feeling that is on the net love, let it subsist on the network forever, don「t bring reality in.

  网上的情恋，就让它永远留存在网络上吧，不要带来现实中来。

• how can you subsist on such a small income?

  这么点收入你可怎么生活呀?。

• how can the poor woman subsist on such a small income?

  这位贫穷的妇女靠如此微薄的收入怎么能生活下去呢？

• that we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not a theory, but a well-demonstrated fact.

  我们依靠植物性食物就足以维生，甚至能更有效地执行工作，这并不是一种理论，而是一个很好证明的事实。

• we couldn」t manage to subsist on such a low wage.

  靠这么低的工资我们根本无法生存。

• families who subsist on food stamps and live at or below the poverty level can「t afford supplements, and there are many such families.

  那些生活在贫困线甚至之下依靠救济粮票的家庭负担得起补充制剂，这样的家庭有很多。

• if it was too wet to light a fire, they had to subsist on hardtack biscuits and cold sowbelly doused in vinegar.

  要是天气太潮生不起火来，他们就只能以饼干和蘸着醋的腌肉充饑。

• the family must subsist on a single income while still paying the taxes that finance public schools.

  这些家庭的生活不得不依靠一个人的收入，而同时他们还要纳税供养那些公立学校。

• you do sometimes wonder whether it mightn」t be easier to move to a desert island and subsist on berries and fresh air.

  你有时肯定想知道是否移居到荒岛，依靠浆果和新鲜空气为生的生活会变得容易。

• at the start of the new millennium, an estimated 1.5 billion people will subsist on the equivalent of a dollar a day, up from 1.2 billion people in 1987.

  千僖年伊始，每天生活费仅有1美元的人数预计会从1987年的12亿增加到15亿。

• many already subsist on the mere threshold of survival.

  许多人早已是仅仅能够维持生存。

• they slip and slide down frozen walkways past dilapidated soviet structures. they subsist on cafeteria food slathered in mayo.

  在荒废的苏维埃时代的建筑里，他们跌跌撞撞穿行在结了冰的走道中，以涂着厚厚蛋黄酱的餐厅食物为生；整日埋头书堆，读着「呕吐彗星(vomit comets)」和离心分离机的知识。

• the whole village had to subsist on corn meal and a little milk supplied by the relied organizations.

  饭和救济组织发放的一点牛奶来勉强维持生活。

• a star of rain forest documentaries, leafcutter ants are one of about 250 ant species that subsist on farmed fungus.

  由于拥有广大的地下真菌农场，切叶蚁成为了世界上最成功的物种之一。

• the 50,000 native socotris, speaking four dialects of a singsong ancient language unintelligible to other yemenis, subsist on fish, goats and not much else.

  岛上的五万个索科特拉人说着属于同一种语言的四种方言，这种吟唱般的古老语言其他也门人是听不懂的。

• and how do the poor subsist on such a meagre amount?

  穷人又是怎样靠这般小数目维持生活的？

• the 50, 000 native socotris, speaking four dialects of a singsong ancient language unintelligible to other yemenis, subsist on fish, goats and not much else.

  岛上的五万个索科特拉人说着属于同一种语言的四种方言，这种吟唱般的古老语言其他也门人是听不懂的。 索科特拉人靠鱼和山羊生存，此外就没有多少其它的食物来源了。