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词汇 subsisted
释义 subsisted
past simple and past participle ofsubsist
subsist
verb[ I ]
 formaluk /səbˈsɪst/ us /səbˈsɪst/
to get enough food or money to stay alive, but no more: 维持生计;勉强生存
The prisoners were subsisting on a diet of bread and water.犯人们靠面包和水勉强度日。
Synonyms
exist
survive
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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balancing act
be left holding the babyidiom
bear up
bite
bite off more than you can chewidiom
cut
heat
hold
juggle
juggling
keep body and soul togetheridiom
keep your head above wateridiom
keep/hold your end upidiom
manage
roll
scrape through (something)
sink or swimidiom
stretch to something
stride
subsist

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Life and living

Examples of subsisted


subsisted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


As a result, linear representations of base-superstructure relations had subsisted in the literature, generating more slogans than informed analysis.
They mostly subsisted on social security payments occasionally supplemented by handouts from the fathers.
People who subsisted predominantly by hunting and gathering used land and resources differently from people whose subsistence was based on pastoralism.
Kanaks subsisted primarily on yams and taro and fishing.
They are not able to grapple with the national consciousness that may have pre-dated the modern state or, in certain modern cases, has certainly subsisted without it.
This figure subsisted throughout the approval in principle stage for comparative purposes.
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He also said that the parent agreement still subsisted.
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Half of the married men in the sample fell into destitution, and generally the other half only subsisted under -grave economic difficulties.
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It was after that decision that the practice which has subsisted ever since was made general.
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It provides that the sound recording will enjoy copyright protection only if copyright subsisted in the film immediately prior to commencement.
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I beg to move, in page 33, line 23, to leave out from "subsisted"to the second"the" in line 26.
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There is the further case, where only part of the land in which the vendor's interest subsisted was sold in consideration of the rent charge.
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Is it borne in mind that that approach was valuable during the war and that its value subsisted afterwards?
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Very often they subsisted on the kindness of working-class neighbours, with all too little time for their own affairs.
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It is rather curious that it has subsisted for the best part of 22 years.
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