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subsistence

英 [səb'sɪst(ə)ns] 美[səb'sɪstəns]
  • n. 生活;生存;存在

英英释意


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