sustaining

英 [səˈsteɪnɪŋ]

美 [səˈsteɪnɪŋ]

v.  维持(生命、生存); 使保持; 使稳定持续; 遭受; 蒙受; 经受
sustain的现在分词

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 key point of characters fate lies in its sustaining point.
  而安排人物命运的重点，却在于其生命的支撑点上。
• But sustaining this progress depends on the ability of Afghans to do the job.
  但是，决定这个进程能否持续下去的是阿富汗人民在处理这一问题上的能力。
• Rapidly rising domestic demand is essential to sustaining high growth in China.
  迅速增加内需，对于维持中国经济的高增长是必要的。
• The answer is American openness building and sustaining an open economy and an open society.
  答案就是美国的开放性建立并保持一个开放的经济以及开放的社会。
• China wants influence without responsibility: to prosper from international order without shouldering the burdens of sustaining it.
  中国希望在不承担责任的情况下施加影响；在不承担维持全球秩序的责任的情况下从国际秩序中繁荣。
• The energy sustaining life today is also from the sun.
  今天维持生命的能量也来源于太阳。
• Before humans can enter a self sustaining modality of thought-form, fission thought-form must be released and transcended.
  在人类能进入到一个自我维生的思想形态中之前，核裂变的思想形态必须得到解除和超越。
• And the broader scientific community must also develop mechanisms for building and sustaining this awareness.
  而更广泛的科学界还必须制定出建立和维持这种意识的机制。
• We are fully capable of sustaining steady and fast economic growth.
  我们完全有能力维持稳定快速的经济增长。
• The challenge of sustaining monetary and price stability in the face of sharply charging coffee prices remains.
  面对咖啡价格猛涨，保持金融和价格稳定的挑战依然存在。