subsistence
英 [s?b's?st(?)ns]
美[s?b's?st?ns]
- n. 生活；生存；存在
英英釋意
- 1. minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting;
- "social security provided only a bare subsistence"
- 2. a means of surviving;
- "farming is a hard means of subsistence"
- 3. the state of existing in reality; having substance