Livelihood

例句/造句/用法:

• They were virtuous young men, and lost no opportunity that fell in their way to make their livelihood. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• 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. 十九世紀發明進展.
• What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• Free men who had no means of livelihood would even sell themselves into slavery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• But the workers in cheap clothing shops organized to prevent the introduction of the machines, claiming that they would destroy their livelihood. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• Then you never heard of the saying of Phocylides, that as soon as a man has a livelihood he should practise virtue? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• 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. 雪麗.
• They earn but a very scanty subsistence, who endeavour to get their livelihood by either of those trades. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Well, well, said the old clerk; we all have our various ways of gaining a livelihood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• His carving is his livelihood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• Right Aspiration, Right Effort, and Right Livelihood distinguished his career. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Right Speech, Right Conduct, and Right Livelihood, need no expansion here. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• As livelihood and leisure are opposed, so are theory and practice, intelligence and execution, knowledge and activity. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.

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