subsistence level

基本解释

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。
“The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change,” Sir Arthur pointed out.
阿瑟爵士指出“维持生计的水平，只是一个常规观念，而常规是会改变的”。
Female agricultural workers plant, harvest and process between 60 and 80% of the food for those communities, mainly at a subsistence level.
女农为她们所处的社会种植、收获并生产了占总量大约60%到80%的粮食，而她们自己却大都赤贫。

The Germans devised the Hartz IV system to limit benefits to a subsistence level of living.
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Most remained mired in subsistence level agriculture until suddenly advances in the Anglosphere catapulted living standards forward.
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It also aims to help them increase their yields in order to become self-sufficient and grow beyond subsistence level.
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