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

• 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'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。
• Cooperative grace – sustains us in the practice of obedience.
  与神合作的恩典–在我们里面维持顺服神的实践。
• So thought not only sustains pleasure.
  所以说，思想不只是维持快乐。
• The sea wall sustains the shock of the waves.
  海堤能抵挡海浪的冲击。
• When acting as a connotation character, it compares with the dramatis personae and sustains each other.
  当“我”以内涵人物出现时，“我”和主人公参差对照，重叠互映，各得生命；
• 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。
• Innovation Sustains the progress of a nation.
  创新是一个民族的灵魂。
• When a person sustains a virologic response after completing treatment, this suggests that HCV infection has been cured.
  当受试者完成治疗后病毒学应答仍在持续，说明丙型肝炎病毒感染已获治愈。
• 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。