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***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

• A small hope sustains a person for a day, a great hope one for a lifetime.
  小盼头支撑人的一天，大盼头支撑人的一生。
• The person beside you sustains you.
  总希望你身边那个人会支持你。
• Most people do not understand basic scientific facts about happiness, about what creates and sustains it, and they consequently do not spend money in ways that optimize their happiness.
  大多数人并不理解有关幸福的基本的科学事实以什么创造和维持人们因此并不花金钱在能优化幸福的方式上。
• What is the cause of the serious breakage the goods sustains?
  该货遭受严重破损的原因是什么？
• 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 Institute is an industry association that promotes and sustains the recycling of all steel products.
  北美钢铁再循环协会是一个行业协会，以促进和维持回收所有钢铁产品。
• The sea wall sustains the shock of the waves.
  海堤能抵挡海浪的冲击。
• So thought not only sustains pleasure.
  所以说，思想不只是维持快乐。
• 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。
• It sustains the world system on the lower planes.
  它维持着世界体系的较低层面。