1、 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、 According to the common definition, hunter-gathers are those who subsist by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants.
根据常见定义,捕集者是指那些以捕猎野生动物和采集野生植物为生的人。
常见考点例句:
Many already subsist on the mere threshold of survival .
许多人早已是仅仅能够维持生存。
And how do the poor subsist on such a meagre amount ?
穷人又是怎样靠这般小数目维持生活的?
More than two-fifths of all africans still subsist on $ 1.25 a day .
超过五分之二的非洲人仍然靠每天1.25美元艰难度日。
According to malthusian logic , if you improve people 's ability to subsist on low incomes , the subsistence income falls as it has in africa , mr clark points out .
But public debt is ultimately a private burden : governments subsist by taxing private income and wealth , or through the ultimate capital levy of inflation or outright default .