Subsistence

(noun.) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; 'social security provided only a bare subsistence'.

(noun.) the state of existing in reality; having substance.

(noun.) a means of surviving; 'farming is a hard means of subsistence'.

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• The manufacturer has always been accustomed to look for his subsistence from his labour only; the soldier to expect it from his pay. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Here is a waste of land that might afford subsistence for so many of the human species. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• They were weary, besides, of humouring the people, and of depending upon their caprice for a subsistence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• To send abroad any great quantity of it, therefore, would be to send abroad a part of the necessary subsistence of the people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• China is a much richer country than any part of Europe, and the difference between the price of subsistence in China and in Europe is very great. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His daily subsistence would be proportioned to his daily necessities. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He had seen something in his travels of rivalry for the means of subsistence. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• As soon as they are able to work, they must apply to some trade, by which they can earn their subsistence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Seius gave for the nightingale the command of a quantity of labour and subsistence, equal to what ? 66:13: 4d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The precarious subsistence which the chace affords, could seldom allow a greater number to keep together for any considerable time. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A slave, however, or one absolutely dependent on us for immediate subsistence, would not be treated in this manner. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In years of plenty, servants frequently leave their masters, and trust their subsistence to what they can make by their own industry. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If it be, how can that question have place, concerning the subsistence of self, under a change of substance? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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