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make a living

谋生；维持生计

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谋生；维持生计

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When agriculture failed to be profitable, the ingenious settlers looked for other ways to make a living.
农业难以继续盈利后，机敏的移居者便寻找其他谋生方式。

来源：Bermuda段 oanc-8408a4874a1e312d1179dbc4:p12s1OANC-1.0.1 UTF-8 (datasets-2026-09-25); source file OANC/data/written_2/travel_guides/berlitz2/Bermuda-history.anc. OANC unrestricted-use terms: https://anc.org/data/oanc/

She makes a living repairing old radios in a small workshop.
她在一间小作坊里靠修理旧收音机谋生。

来源：Expression Original Learning Examples — 口语必备库 — batch11 · Expression Editorial Team段 oanc-base-make-a-livingOriginal English example and Chinese translation written for Expression; no third-party sentence text is reproduced.