Before liberation, they subsisted by begging.

The impoverished family subsisted oncharity.

那个贫穷的家庭靠慈善周济过日子.

His family subsisted on ￡20 a week.

他们一家靠每星期20英镑的收入维持生活.

He subsisted mainly on vegetables and fruit.

他主要依靠蔬菜和水果维持生命.

On these fifteen hundred francs these two old women and the old man subsisted.

两个老妇人和老头儿都在那一千五百法郎里过活.

She was indeed united to England, but the cement irritation of ancient wrongs still subsisted.

她确实已与英国合作, 但关系尚未巩固,宿怨并未消释.

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

他一天工作16个小时，工资仅够勉强维持生计。

...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