| 单词 | means of subsistence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeans of subsistence a. The action or fact of providing support for human or animal life; the provision of food or provender. In modern use often with reference to a bare or minimum level of existence (see also Compounds 1b). Frequently in means of subsistence. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] nourishmentc1330 nurshinga1382 nurshmenta1382 sustenance1389 nutrition?a1425 nutrure?c1450 sustentation1452 nutrifaction?1503 education1533 feeding1547 nourishing1560 nutriture1568 cherishment1593 subsistence1615 nutrication1623 alimentation1626 keeping1644 alition1650 alumnation1658 focillation1658 aliture1721 altion1721 the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > action of supplying purveyancea1387 victualling1462 subsistence1615 1615 R. Hamor True Disc. Present Estate Virginia 19 He shall be furnished with necessary tooles of all sorts, and for his better subsistance he shall haue Poultry, and swine. 1622 Orders & Constit. Summer-Islands 62 Prouided that there be alwaies meanes left of liuelihood and subsistance, to the Occupiers of the Land. 1641 G. Langbaine in J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion (new ed.) sig. Cv William Grindall,..whom being destitute of other meanes of subsistance, M. Cheek took into his service. 1655 O. Cromwell Let. Nov. (1845) II. 390 What necessary supplies, as well for comfortable subsistence as for your security against the Spaniard, this place may afford. a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 104 Tilling their own few acres of ground for the subsistence of their families. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 103 As the means of subsistence were destroyed, they removed further to the westward. 1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) iii. 39 I should not wonder if you must pay for the subsistence of your cow this winter by extra labour. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland xiii. 290 Finding the door to promotion or even to subsistence closed against him. 1884 Law Times Rep. 50 9/2 We submit that the court will not reduce the defendant to beggary by selling his only means of subsistence. 1937 Handbk. Farmers S. Afr. (S. Afr. Dept. Agric.) (new ed.) 386 The perennial bushes form the staple, and at times indeed the only, means of subsistence in the Karroo veld. 1989 P. van der Merwe Origins Pop. Style (1992) vi. 43 He devoted most of his land and time to food crops for the subsistence of his own family. 2010 Observer (Nexis) 30 May 33 If I buy products from India, I'm encouraging child-labour and grim sweatshops. If I don't, I'm depriving the world's poorest families of their only means of subsistence. < as lemmas |
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