中英互译
subsist
英 /səbˈsɪst/美 /səbˈsɪst/
基本释义
- vi.存在;维持生活
- vt.供养
第三人称单数subsists
现在分词subsisting
过去式subsisted
过去分词subsisted
TOEFLGRESAT
双语例句
- Old people often subsist on very small incomes.老人往往靠十分微薄的收入艰难度日。来自《牛津词典》
- According to the common definition, hunter-gathers are those who subsist by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants.根据常见定义,捕集者是指那些以捕猎野生动物和采集野生植物为生的人。
- She has to get a casual work to subsist.她不得不找一个临时工作维持生活。
相关短语
- subsist on靠…生存
- subsist on依靠;考试大;依靠来源考试大;以…为食
- subsist in在于
- subsist t活下去;维持生活
- to subsist生存
- subsist by赖
词语扩展
n.
subsistence生活;生存;存在
词义分布
生存
50%
活下去
16.7%
存在
10.4%
供养
6.2%
度日
4.2%
维持生命
4.2%
存续
4.2%
维持生活
4.2%
英英释义
- v.support oneself
词源
- subsist生存,维持生活,供养词根词缀: sub-下 + -sist-站 → 站下去
- 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。
- subsistFrom French subsister, from Latin subsistere (“to take a stand or position, stand still, stop, stay, remain, continue”), from sub (“under”) + sistere (“to cause to stand, place”). Compare consist, desist, exist, insist, persist.