Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.

雇员投入数小时的体力或脑力劳动来得到维持生计的薪水。

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Children not suffering from such a grave disease could be fed with half that amount - not on a diet like ours, but on plain, basic, life-sustaining food.

没有遭到那种严重疾病的孩子可以用那个数目的半数糊口——不是们那样的食物，只是一般的、基本的、维持生命的食物。

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When a patient like Domalewski comes under the care of DE Fina and Jonathan Fellus at the Kessler Institute in New Jersey, he doesn't get the standard "life-sustaining" drug treatments.

像多玛斯基这样的病人在新泽西州的凯斯勒研究所接受德·菲纳和乔纳森·费卢斯的治疗时，他并不会得到标准的“维持生命”的药物治疗。

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These rock-like objects were the first lifeforms to pump enough oxygen into the sea and atmosphere so that complex lifeforms could develop, helping them become the beautiful, life sustaining waters that we know today.

BBC: Grasping the scale of Earth's oceans

For other species, we are their spokespersons and it is up to us to acknowledge our indebtedness to them: to all of the soldiers that make our soil, our atmosphere, our rivers and seas and forests the life sustaining ecosystems that have given us our breath, our dreams, our hopes.

FORBES: "A Memorial Day for the Environment"

The President made clear that beyond the immediate lifesaving and life sustaining activities, which remain the primary focus, he wanted his team to continue to focus on what they can do to support state, local, and private sector efforts to restore power and asked the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to continue to work in support of FEMA towards this goal.

WHITEHOUSE: Readout of the President��s Briefing on Hurricane Sandy