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

• 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。
• The framework of mutual respect sustains our cultural cooperation today.
  互相尊重的精神是我们今天文化合作的基础。
• The occipital chakra also sustains the chi of the entire field in balance.
  枕骨脉轮也维系着整个能量场气的平衡。
• You must see that it sustains no damage;
  你务必使它完好无损；
• 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。
• It's the gravitational attraction between the sun and the planets that sustains the planets in elliptical orbits around the sun.
  那是太阳和行星之间的万有引力。维持着众行星围绕在太阳四周的椭圆轨道上。
• Cooperative grace – sustains us in the practice of obedience.
  与神合作的恩典–在我们里面维持顺服神的实践。
• The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary.
  4主耶和华赐我受教者的舌头，使我知道怎样用言语扶助疲乏的人。
• The person beside you sustains you.
  总希望你身边那个人会支持你。
• The nurse sustains a cooperative relationship with co-workers in nursing and other fields.
  护士在护理及其它方面，跟合作者保持合作共事关系。