Livelihood

(n.) Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.

(n.) Liveliness; appearance of life.

录入:赖安

• They were virtuous young men, and lost no opportunity that fell in their way to make their livelihood. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Papin’s boat was said to have been used on the Fulda at Cassel, and was reported to have been destroyed by bargemen, who feared that it would deprive them of a livelihood. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Free men who had no means of livelihood would even sell themselves into slavery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But the workers in cheap clothing shops organized to prevent the introduction of the machines, claiming that they would destroy their livelihood. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Then you never heard of the saying of Phocylides, that as soon as a man has a livelihood he should practise virtue? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I see no more light than if I were sealed in a rock, so that for me to pretend to offer a man a livelihood would be to do a dishonest thing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They earn but a very scanty subsistence, who endeavour to get their livelihood by either of those trades. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Well, well, said the old clerk; we all have our various ways of gaining a livelihood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• His carving is his livelihood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Right Aspiration, Right Effort, and Right Livelihood distinguished his career. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Right Speech, Right Conduct, and Right Livelihood, need no expansion here. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To-day there is little temptation to the telegrapher to go to distant parts of the country on the chance that he may secure a livelihood at the key. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• As livelihood and leisure are opposed, so are theory and practice, intelligence and execution, knowledge and activity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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