1.
subsistence wages
仅能维持生活的最低工资
2.
subsistence economy
仅能维持生存的经济
3.
His small farm provides maintenance, but not much more.
他的小农场能使他们维持生活, 但仅此而已。
4.
Her earnings are the only support of her aged parents.
她年迈的父母仅仅靠他的收入来维持生活
5.
During the war we had just enough food to sustain us.
战争期间, 我们的食物仅够维持生活。
6.
so that he has just enough money to live on.
使他能够维持生活。
7.
a living wage
能够维持生活的工资
8.
Its villages boasted strong lineage organizations that helped to bond communities together.
坚忍的自耕农，生活仅能勉强维持小康，地主与佃农的生活境况与自耕农并无殊异。
9.
Business at the store is bad. They can barely keep their heads above water.
店里的生意不好，他们仅能勉强维持生计。
10.
aid dependency: Refers to the poorest countries that need foreign aid merely to maintain their present low quality of life.
援助依赖国:指那些需要外国援助,但不过仅能以此维持目前低生活质量的最贫穷国家。
11.
support oneself by
靠…度日(维持生活)
12.
Nowadays we cannot get along on 20 yuan a month.
如今每月20元钱不能维持生活。
13.
The worker is demanding to be paid a living wage.
工人要求得到能够维持生活的工资。
14.
He earns 500 dollars a month and can keep the wolf from the door
他每月挣500美元，能勉强维持生活。
15.
The worker be demanding to be pay a living wage
工人要求得到能够维持生活的工资
16.
The workers are demanding to be paid a living wage, ie one that enables them to live without hunger or hardship.
工人要求得到能够维持生活的工资.
17.
$200 will see me right for one month.
200美元能维持我一个月的生活。
18.
In those days they could hardly maintain the barest living.
那时候，他们简直不能维持最低的生活。