subsistence
subsistence 英 [səbˈsɪstəns] 美 [səbˈsɪstəns]
n. 生活；生存；存在
名词复数:subsistences
- Subsistence means the minimal resources that are necessary for survival. If you work for subsistence, you'll probably receive food, water, and lodging (internet access not included).
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- n. 生活；生存；存在
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1. The federal government and the International Whaling Commission allow the whale hunt to continue, under tight control, as a subsistence tradition.
联邦政府和国际捕鲸委员会允许这种捕鲸继续，在紧密的控制下，作为一种生活传统。
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2. For thousands of years the native people living above the Arctic circle in Alaska have depended on hunting bowhead whales and other mammals for their subsistence.
千百年来生活在住在阿拉斯加北极圈内的当地人依靠狩猎北极露脊鲸和其他哺乳动物生存。
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3. The researchers think that this occurred about a century ago, just when commercial agriculture was replacing subsistence farming and maize started to overshadow indigenous crops in Africa.
这组科学家认为这发生在大约一个世纪之前，就在商业农业取代生存农业、而玉米开始取代非洲本土作物的时候。
- subsistence (n.) early 15c., "existence, independence," from Late Latin subsistentia "substance, reality," in Medieval Latin also "stability," from Latin subsistens, present participle of subsistere "stand still or firm" (see subsist). Latin subsistentia is a loan-translation of Greek hypostasis "foundation, substance, real nature, subject matter; that which settles at the bottom, sediment," literally "anything set under." In the English word, meaning "act or process of support for physical life" is from 1640s.
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