活路的英文：
means of subsistence
- He that attacks my honour, attacks my livelihood
谁要指责我的信誉，就是断我的活路。
n. 方法，手段；工具；金钱，财富，财产，财力，收入
- That was a mean trick!
那是卑鄙的诡计！ - A modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.
修饰语除了加强修饰词的意思之外没有实际意义。 - get money by dishonest means
非法赚钱, 得不义之财 - The meaning of the passage is obscure.
这段文字意义晦涩。 - No stutter, maybe, but lots of mean.
不口吃，也许。 但是很恶毒。
n. 生存；生计
adj. 收成仅够自身口粮的
- Farming is still mostly for subsistence.
农业仍仅够国人糊口。 - They had no visible means of subsistence.
他们生计无着。 - The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence.
现在的生活水平几乎快要无法维持生计。 - They were living barely above the level of subsistence.
他们的生活水平勉强在最低水平线以上。 - Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
只有通过相互的让步，社会生活才能存在下去。
