My father gained a bare livelihood of family by his own hands.

父亲靠自己的双手勉强维持家计。

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The passbooks - given to each family receiving either a housing or livelihood grant - are part of the bid to ensure transparency with funding.

发放这种存折(即发给接受住房或生活赠款的家庭的存折)的部分原因是为了确保资金使用的透明度。

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Long, Long age, there lived a family by the Yellow River.They lived a very poor lift, depending on cutting reeds, weaving hanging screens and dustpans for a livelihood.

很久很久以前，有一户人家住在黄河边上，靠割芦苇、编帘子簸箕为生，日子过得非常贫困。

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The value of the dollar will go down, and alongside it the livelihood of the American family, until we figure these things out.

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The business that I spent twenty-three years building gone, I am unemployed, my livelihood destroyed, and my family will forever live with the shame of what my father has done.

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The implication was clear: he'd worked 14 years in this resort town and this would be the day that would forever alter his life and, most likely, his livelihood and that of his family.

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