Subsistence is the condition of just having enough food or money to stay alive.
例句
...below the subsistence level...低于最低生活水平The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence.现在的生活水平几乎快要无法维持生计。
ADJ
(农业或农业生产)收成仅够自身口粮的
In subsistence farming or subsistence agriculture, farmers produce food to eat themselves rather than to sell.
例句
Many black Namibians are subsistence farmers who live in the arid borderlands.许多生活在土地贫瘠的边境地区的纳米比亚黑人农场主的收成仅够维持自身的口粮。
英汉词典释义
n.
存活, 生存, 维生之道
He is on the margin of bare subsistence.他正处在挨饿的边缘。Their subsistence comes from the sea.他们依赖海洋生活。Their main mode of subsistence is hunting.他们主要以打猎为生。Most of the population lives at subsistence level.大多数人过着勉强糊口的生活。She had no means of subsistence and was dependent on charity.她没什么谋生手段,只能依靠救济。They were living barely above the level of subsistence.他们的生活水平勉强在最低水平线以上。
英英词典释义
Noun
1. minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting;
"social security provided only a bare subsistence"
2. a means of surviving;
"farming is a hard means of subsistence"
3. the state of existing in reality; having substance