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这个地区靠航运业维持生活。 The community depends on the shipping industry for its survival. | ||
解放前，他们靠讨饭维持生活。 Before liberation, they subsisted by begging. | ||
我们现在靠社会保障金维持生活。 We're living on the social now. | ||
他们在街头演奏音乐，勉强维持生活。 They scraped a living by playing music on the streets. | ||
我仍然有时做女招待来维持生活。 I was still working on and off as a waitress to support myself. | ||
他靠每月的社会保险金勉强维持生活。 She is barely surviving on her Social Security payment. | ||
他们靠他挣的那点钱无法维持生活。 They can't exist on the money he's earning. | ||
犯人一天三次靠一杯最差的粥维持生活。 The prisoners subsisted on one mug of the worst quality porridge three times a day. | ||
许多农民不得不依靠补助来维持基本的生活需要。 Many farmers have to depend on subsidies to make a living wage. | ||
这些流浪者中许多人看起来是靠乞讨和干杂活维持生活。 Many of these street people seemed to support themselves by panhandling and doing odd jobs. | ||
