mainstay
英 [ˈmeɪnsteɪ]
美 [ˈmeɪnsteɪ]
n. 支柱; 中流砥柱
复数：mainstays
Collins.1 / BNC.14440 / COCA.13265
牛津词典
noun
- 支柱；中流砥柱
a person or thing that is the most important part of sth and enables it to exist or be successful- Cocoa is the country's economic mainstay.
可可是这个国家的经济支柱。
- Cocoa is the country's economic mainstay.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 支柱;中坚
If you describe something asthe mainstay ofa particular thing, you mean that it is the most basic part of it.- Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet...
鱼和米是该国的主要食品。 - This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labor relations in this country.
这一集体谈判原则已经成为该国劳动关系的重要基础。
- Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet...
英英释义
noun
- the forestay that braces the mainmast
- a central cohesive source of support and stability
- faith is his anchor
- the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money
- he is the linchpin of this firm
- a prominent supporter
- he is a pillar of the community
双语例句
- After the father's death the son became the mainstay of the family.
父亲死后，儿子就成了这个家庭的主心骨。 - Of the 600 million people in our country, the worker and peasant masses are our mainstay.
在我国六亿人口中，工人、农民是我们的基本群众。 - We need to restore the aviation industry as a mainstay of our economy.
我们要使航空业重新成为经济的支柱产业。 - In fact, it is the mainstay of many Agile development methods.
事实上，这是许多敏捷开发方法的支柱。 - This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labor relations in this country.
这一集体谈判原则已经成为该国劳动关系的重要基础。 - In these locomotive days tourism has become the mainstay of the country.
在当今旅行风气很盛的时代，旅游业成了这个国家的主要收益。 - Brands have long been a mainstay of consumer companies.
长期以来，品牌一直是消费公司的支柱。 - It can be reasonably explained only if the entrepreneurship of the market mainstay is included in the analysis framework.
只有将市场主体的企业家才能纳入分析框架，上述问题才能得到合理解释。 - Tourism is the mainstay of the island's economy.
旅游是该岛的主要经济来源。 - City, large and medium industrial enterprises above is a mainstay of the region's industrial economy.
市以上大中型工业企业是全区工业经济的支柱。