Working in such a laundry was known as the eight-pound livelihood because a person had to lift an iron weighing almost four kilograms all day.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

If anything happens to me in my livelihood, then it's spread out over everybody and everybody means the whole world.

如果我的生计出问题了，它将分散到每个人身上,每个人指全世界的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Learn the accomplishments of active life, take for your models not those people who spend their time on these petty quibbles but those who have a good livelihood and reputation and many other blessings."

学个谋生的一技之长，别学那些满嘴谬论的人,要学那些生活富足，声名显赫及福泽深厚的人“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Some 7m animals died, wiping out many families' entire herds and so their livelihood.

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Lots of businesses are involved with that complex and depend on it for their livelihood.

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About 80% of Syrians living outside the major cities rely on farming for their livelihood.

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