subsistence

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n. 生存, 生活 [医] 生存

发音

其它 /səbˈsɪstəns/

词形变化

subsistences 复数 subsistences

别名

subsistency subsistance

教材释义与例句

名词

生活；生存；存在

释义与例句

n. C2
  1. 1.

    Real being; existence.

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  2. 2.

    The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.

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  3. 3.

    Inherency.

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    the subsistence of qualities in bodies

  4. 4.

    Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.

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  5. 5.

    Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

    可数 不可数 宗教

词汇关系

名词

上位词 10

keep being living support existence survival endurance livelihood sustenance bread and butter

相关短语

subsistence economy subsistence farming n. 少有余粮的农场经营 subsistence level [经] 生活水准, 生存水准 subsistence levels subsistence crop subsistence crops

词源

From Middle English subsistence; partly from Middle French subsistence (modern French subsistance) and partly from its etymon Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistēns, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). Perhaps also partly from subsist + -ence.

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