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Having just enough - food, money, or basic things - to stay alive, with nothing extra left over. You often meet this word in 'subsistence farming' (growing only enough food to feed your own family, not to sell) or 'subsistence level' (an income that is barely enough to live on).
維生；基本生活所需
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
subsistencenoun/səbˈsɪstəns/
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Real being; existence.
- the human nature loseth its proper subsistence , and is assumed into the subsistence of the divine nature
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The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
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Inherency.
- the subsistence of qualities in bodies
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Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
- In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
- His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.
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lifestylereligiontheologyEmbodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。