The munitions factory provides another example. Because production was still suspended, the workers received only living expenses, which did not amount to much, and all of them were dissatisfied.
又如兵工厂，由于生产尚未恢复，开始只发生活维持费，工资较低，工人普遍不满意。
China's defense expenditure falls into the following categories: personnel expenses, costs for maintenance of activities, and costs for equipment.
中国国防费包括：人员生活费、活动维持费、装备费。
Most of China's military spending is used on military personnel's living and activity maintaining costs, and a small part goes to military equipment.
中国军费大部分用于人员生活费、活动维持费，少部分用于装备费。
Sure, their wages were low but so is the cost of living.
的确，他们的工资是低，但是能够维持生活的费用。
support oneself by
靠…度日(维持生活)
The cost of living is now so high that you need to earn a good income just to keep your head above water.
生活费用现在是如此之高，必须要有很好的收入才得以维持生活。
He made a living by doing odd jobs.
他靠干零活维持生活。
He tried to keep things going by doing odd jobs.
他干些杂活来维持生活。
An establishment was also made of six hundred person to be my domestics, who had boardwages allowed for their maintenance.
他又指定了六百人给我当差，发给他们维持生活的费用。
He scarcely has enough money to keep body and soul together.
他几乎无钱维持生活.
He had barely enough money to live on.
他几乎没有钱维持生活。
How shall we get sustenance?
我们怎样维持生活呢？
He scarcely have enough money to keep body and soul together
他几乎无钱维持生活
so that he has just enough money to live on.
使他能够维持生活。
That's how I earn my daily bread.
我是这样维持生活的.
a living wage
能够维持生活的工资
He lives by writing short story.
他以写小说来维持生活
He lives by write short story .
他以写小说来维持生活。