subsist
subsist 英 [səb'sɪst] 美 [səb'sɪst]
vi. 存在；维持生活 vt. 供养
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- vi. 存在；维持生活
- vt. 供养
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1. Don't worry about your children whom I can subsist.
别担心你的孩子们，我可以供养他们。
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2. 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。
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3. Raw milk provides so many different vital nutrients that if one absolutely needed, they could subsist off of raw milk their entire life.
生牛奶能给人提供重要营养元素，如果人们完全需要，他们一生都可以靠生牛奶维持生活。
- subsist (v.) 1540s, "to exist;" c. 1600, "retain the existing state," from Middle French subsister and directly from Latin subsistere "to stand still or firm, take a stand, take position; abide, hold out," from sub "under, up to" (see sub-) + sistere "to assume a standing position, stand still, remain; set, place, cause to stand still," from PIE *si-st-, reduplicated form of root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm." Meaning "to support oneself" (in a certain way) is from 1640s. Related: Subsisted; subsisting.
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