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

• 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。
• Water is an unique resource which always sustains life of all kind on our planet.
  水是在这个地球上维持各种生命的一种独有的资源。
• That credit sustains him as breath animates the body;
  信用于他来说，正如呼吸对于他的身体一样。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• It sustains the world system on the lower planes.
  它维持着世界体系的较低层面。
• 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？
• What sustains my mind? My quest for knowledge.
  对知识的渴望让我保持智慧！
• 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。