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 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。
• 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。
• It sustains the world system on the lower planes.
  它维持着世界体系的较低层面。
• 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。
• The person beside you sustains you.
  总希望你身边那个人会支持你。
• But what sustains you are the characters.
  真正能撑起来的就是人物了。
• 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。
• So thought not only sustains pleasure.
  所以说，思想不只是维持快乐。
• 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。
• 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。