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subsist

US [səbˈsɪst]
UK [səb'sɪst]
  • v.存在；（尤指靠有限的食物或钱）维持生活；有效
  • Web生存；供养；活下去
Simple Present：subsists  Present Participle：subsisting  Past Tense：subsisted  

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subsist
v.
1.
[i]
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（尤指靠有限的食物或钱）维持生活，度日to manage to stay alive, especially with limited food or money
Old people often subsist on very small incomes.
老人往往靠十分微薄的收入艰难度日。
2.
[i]
存在；有效to exist; to be valid
The terms of the contract subsist.
合同条款有效。

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Definition:
AllAll,存在存在,维持生活维持生活,有效有效,生存生存,供养供养,活下去活下去
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1.
This broke the hearts of the group who felt very bad that the bear had to be shot, as it was harmless outside of requiring food to subsist.
这击痛了小组成员们的心灵，在熊被射杀的时候，他们感觉非常之坏，因为它是无恶意的，只是在外面寻找食物维生。
zhè jī tòng le xiǎo zǔ chéng yuán men de xīn líng , zài xióng bèi shè shā de shí hou , tā men gǎn jué fēi cháng zhī huài , yīn wèi tā shì wú è yì de , zhǐ shì zài wài miàn xún zhǎo shí wù wéi shēng 。
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2.
Every symbolic expression like this one, of the being dead, makes him subsist, preserves him when all is said and done.
每一个意符的表达，就像这一句，「已经死亡」的这一句，使他生存下去。衡量一切之后，会保存他。
měi yī gè yì fú de biǎo dá , jiù xiàng zhè yī jù , 「 yǐ jīng sǐ wáng 」 de zhè yī jù , shǐ tā shēng cún xià qù 。 héng liáng yí qiè zhī hòu , huì bǎo cún tā 。
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3.
I had fifteen pistols; so he borrowed occasionally of me to subsist, while he was looking out for business.
我身边有十五块西班牙币，所以，在他寻找工作的时候，有时他偶尔向我借一点去维持生活。
wǒ shēn biān yǒu shí wǔ kuài xī bān yá bì , suǒ yǐ , zài tā xún zhǎo gōng zuò de shí hou , yǒu shí tā ǒu ěr xiàng wǒ jiè yì diǎn qù wéi chí shēng huó 。
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4.
Leave the television behind, and the artificial need for objects that you really do not require to subsist will also be left behind.
将电视留在身后，那么对你而言并非维生所需的物品的虚假需求就可以被留在身后。
jiāng diàn shì liú zài shēn hòu , nà me duì nǐ ér yán bìng fēi wéi shēng suǒ xū de wù pǐn de xū jiǎ xū qiú jiù kě yǐ bèi liú zài shēn hòu 。
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5.
For a split second I thought I should let them know why I had to come here, so that they would let me subsist here.
有一瞬间我想也许我应该让他们知道我为什么必须来这里，没准他们会愿意让我在这儿待下去。
yǒu yí shùn jiān wǒ xiǎng yě xǔ wǒ yīng gāi ràng tā men zhī dào wǒ wèi shén me bì xū lái zhè lǐ , méi zhǔn tā men huì yuàn yì ràng wǒ zài zhè er dāi xià qù 。
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6.
Nothing however can subsist, if it be wholly devoid of identity between the notion and reality.
然而完全没有概念和实在性的同一的东西，就不可能有任何存在。
rán ér wán quán méi yǒu gài niàn hé shí zài xìng de tóng yī de dōng xi , jiù bù kě néng yǒu rèn hé cún zài 。
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7.
Southerners no longer subsist by sweating in fields, but by making cars, pampering tourists or flying urgent packages around the world.
南方人不再靠挥洒汗水，种植作物得以生存，他们开始生产汽车、发展旅游，还在全球范围内展开快递服务。
nán fāng rén bú zài kào huī sǎ hàn shuǐ , zhòng zhí zuò wù dé yǐ shēng cún , tā men kāi shǐ shēng chǎn qì chē 、 fā zhǎn lǚ yóu , hái zài quán qiú fàn wéi nèi zhǎn kāi kuài dì fú wù 。
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8.
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饥。
yào shi tiān qì tài cháo shēng bù qǐ huǒ lái , tā men jiù zhǐ néng yǐ bǐng gān hé zhàn zhe cù de yān ròu chōng jī 。
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9.
Universals do not subsist outside the soul, but the intellect, in understanding universals, understands things that are outside the soul.
诸共相不存在于灵魂之外，但智性在了解诸共相的同时，却了解到一些灵魂以外的事物。
zhū gòng xiāng bù cún zài yú líng hún zhī wài , dàn zhì xìng zài liǎo jiě zhū gòng xiàng de tóng shí , què liǎo jiě dào yì xiē líng hún yǐ wài de shì wù 。
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10.
These archetypal eerie animals are the only mammals that subsist solely on blood.
这些原始型的可怕动物是唯一一种以吸血为生的哺乳动物。
zhè xiē yuán shǐ xíng de kě pà dòng wù shì wéi yī yī zhǒng yǐ xī xuè wéi shēng de bǔ rǔ dòng wù 。
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