sustains

英 [səˈsteɪnz]

美 [səˈsteɪnz]

v.  维持(生命、生存); 使保持; 使稳定持续; 遭受; 蒙受; 经受
sustain的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使持续;保持
  If yousustainsomething, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time.
  1. But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age...
     而他从青年时期一直到老年都始终保持着强烈的社会良知。
  2. The parameters within which life can be sustained on Earth are extraordinarily narrow.
     地球上生命可以存活下来的地域范围是非常狭小的。
  3. ...a period of sustained economic growth throughout 1995.
     1995 年全年经济持续增长时期
• VERB 经受;遭受;蒙受
  If yousustainsomething such as a defeat, loss, or injury, it happens to you.
  1. Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage...
     那里的每架飞机都受到了一些损坏。
  2. A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday's bomb blast.
     一位 17 岁的游客在昨天的炸弹爆炸中受伤并于当天深夜身亡。
• VERB 支持;支援;救济
  If somethingsustainsyou, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement.
  1. The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season...
     从经济作物中获得的收益能帮助他们度过不景气的时期。
  2. I am sustained by letters of support and what people say to me in ordinary daily life...
     这些支持的信件和人们每天对我的鼓励一直支撑着我。
  3. Sustained by this wonderful breakfast, it was with restored morale that we re-boarded our plane.
     这顿丰盛的早餐补充了我们的体力，我们又精神焕发地登上了飞机。

双语例句

• These bovine represent motherhood, and their milk sustains and nourishes them.
  这些牛代表母亲，牛奶能养活并滋养他们。
• But when DNA sustains too much damage, it cannot replicate properly.
  但是当DNA遭受太大损伤时，它不能正确的复制。
• When acting as a connotation character, it compares with the dramatis personae and sustains each other.
  当“我”以内涵人物出现时，“我”和主人公参差对照，重叠互映，各得生命；
• So thought not only sustains pleasure.
  所以说，思想不只是维持快乐。
• You must see that it sustains no damage;
  你务必使它完好无损；
• The sea wall sustains the shock of the waves.
  海堤能抵挡海浪的冲击。
• When a person sustains a virologic response after completing treatment, this suggests that HCV infection has been cured.
  当受试者完成治疗后病毒学应答仍在持续，说明丙型肝炎病毒感染已获治愈。
• That turmoil is sent to them, and it sustains them in some way.
  是混乱传送给他们的装置，而在某种程度上混乱支撑着他们。
• It sustains the world system on the lower planes.
  它维持着世界体系的较低层面。
• They are crowding it in, instead, by supporting demand, which sustains jobs and profits.
  相反，通过支撑需求，私人部门正在不断涌入，维持了就业和利润。