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

• The person beside you sustains you.
  总希望你身边那个人会支持你。
• 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？
• Innovation Sustains the progress of a nation.
  创新是一个民族的灵魂。
• 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。
• Innovation sustains the growth of the hi-tech development zone, which has been proved by the rapid growth of the Taiyuan Hi-tech Development Zone.
  创新是高新技术开发区发展的灵魂与根本，太原高新技术开发区的发展与实践深刻证明了这一点。
• It is essential for the eurozone and the world that it sustains a healthy level of demand.
  将需求维持在健康水平，这对欧元区和全世界都非常重要。
• The sea wall sustains the shock of the waves.
  海堤能抵挡海浪的冲击。
• 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 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。
• You must see that it sustains no damage;
  你务必使它完好无损；