" What are his present means of subsistence" ?

“他目前的谋生手段是什么”？

The country supplies the town with the means of subsistence and the materials of manufacture.

农村为城市提供生活资料和制造材料。

The citizens, therefore, who had no land, had scarce any other means of subsistence but the bounties of the candidates at the annual elections.

因此，没有土地的公民除了每年选举候选人的赏金外，几乎没有任何其他谋生手段。

But some art-snobs are also modernity-snobs. There are enough of them, with the few eccentrics, who like works of art for their own sake, to provide living artists with the means of subsistence.

但某些艺术势利者同时也是新潮势利者，他们这些人再加上少数出于对艺术品本身的喜爱而 买画的怪人，足以使活着的艺术家获得必需的生活资料。

Whereas at Paris and Edinburgh, people who let lodgings have commonly no other means of subsistence; and the price of the lodging must pay, not only the rent of the house, but the whole expense of the family.

而在巴黎和爱丁堡，租房的人通常没有其他谋生手段；而住宿的价格必须支付，不仅是房租，而且是家庭的全部费用。