He worked a 16-hour day for a subsistence wage (= enough money to buy only basic items) .

...below the subsistence level...

低于最低生活水平

They were living barely above the level of subsistence.

他们的生活水平勉强在最低水平线以上.

Salaries were below subsistence level for the Europeans in the East.

薪金不足以维持留居东方的欧洲人的生活水平.

First, the relationship between subsistence and development.

一是生存与发展的关系.

The rights system is consisted of right to subsistence, social security, equal, education and work.

弱势群体的权利体系由生存权 、 社会保障权 、 平等权 、 教育权、劳动权组成.

Conflicts can arise when modern technologies are used for what used to be simply subsistence fishing.

冲突可能会出现现代技术用于曾经被认为是简单的生活捕鱼.

Many of the families are forced to live at the subsistence level.

很多家庭被迫生活在基本生活水准线上。

They had no visible means of subsistence.

他们生计无着。

In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.

在任何情况下不得剥夺一个人民自己的生存手段.

The land provided subsistence and little more.

这块土地只能提供人们的基本生活所需,别无富余。

Those things will help to buy your [ b ] subsistence there, and your passage home again.

你的那些东西可以帮助你在那儿过活, 并可做你回家的盘费.

Without the right to work, there will be no guarantee for the right to subsistence.

没有劳动权, 生存权利也就没有保障.

Some problems occurred to Shanghai during the development of security line for minimum subsistence.

最低生活保障线在上海的发展与其建设小康社会同步,其中面临的具体问题不少.

subsistence agriculture/farming (= growing enough only to live on, not to sell)

收成仅够自身口粮的自给农业

to live below (the) subsistence level

生活在基本生活水平线以下

Many families are living below the level of subsistence.

许多家庭难以度日。

They could gain their subsistence in the mountains.

他们在山里能够活下去.

subsistence crops

生存作物

Subsistence is the purpose while others are methods.

生存是目的,其余皆为手段.

Subsistence is not possible in such conditions.

在这种情况下是无法生存的.