means of subsistence

基本解釋

citizens' lawful earnings, savings, houses and other means of subsistence;
公民的合法收入、儲蓄、房屋和其他生活資料；
Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence.
馬爾薩斯的人口增長的幅度將超越人類生存倚賴物質增長的幅度的理論。
People in economic era have to strive for not only the economy of the industry and commerce and the means of subsistence but also the economy of thinking and language.
處于經(jīng)濟時代的人們，不僅要講求實業(yè)和生活資料的經(jīng)濟，而且要講求思維與語言經(jīng)濟。

" This group consisted of "people with dubious means of subsistence and of questionable character...vagabonds, failed soldiers, discharged jailbirds, swindlers, lazzaroni, pickpockets, and tricksters.
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And that means of advancement still works for a few children of subsistence families each year.
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生活資料
Farmers lost their land because of this valuable means of subsistence, not to protect the legitimate rights and interests, their lives will soon put on the spot, as the contradictions caused by Reconstruction of Village Japanese highlights.
失地農(nóng)民由于失去土地這一寶貴的生活資料,合法權益得不到保障,他們的生活很快陷入窘境,由于城中村改造所引發(fā)的矛盾日益凸顯。
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