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

• It sustains the world system on the lower planes.
  它维持着世界体系的较低层面。
• 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。
• 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。
• The sea wall sustains the shock of the waves.
  海堤能抵挡海浪的冲击。
• 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。
• Biological diversity the incredible variety of life on Earth that sustains us is in rapid decline.
  生物多样性我们赖以为生的地球上难以置信的大量物种正在迅速减少。
• 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。
• This novel sustains the reader's interest to the end.
  这部小说使读者到最后都依然兴趣浓厚。
• 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 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。