mainstays

英 [ˈmeɪnsteɪz]

美 [ˈmeɪnˌsteɪz]

n.  支柱; 中流砥柱
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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.
  1. Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet...
     鱼和米是该国的主要食品。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• 'Sexiest' list mainstays Ryan Gosling, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson finished at seven, 12 and 21 respectively.
  最性感男人榜单常客好莱坞男星瑞恩高斯林，约翰尼德普和暮光之城男星罗伯特帕丁森分列第七，第十二和第二十一位。
• Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet
  鱼和米是该国的主要食品。
• Agriculture and handicraft industry are the two mainstays of the social economy of ancient China.
  农业和手工业是古代中国社会经济的两大支柱。
• In Central America, remittances have long eclipsed traditional agricultural mainstays such as coffee and bananas.
  在中美洲，海外汇款收入很早之前就超过了咖啡、香蕉等传统的农业支柱产业。
• Construction industry is one of the mainstays of national economy. The rapid development of construction industry brought well opportunity for the development of building waterproofing materials.
  建筑业是中国国民经济建设的支柱产业之一，建筑业的蓬勃发展为建筑防水材料行业的发展带来了良好的机遇。
• Cars promise far more than they deliver, both as consumer products and as mainstays of manufacturing economies.
  汽车向人们许诺的好处，远超其实际功用，不管是作为消费者产品，还是作为制造业经济体的支柱。
• Sugarcane and sugar product is one of the economic mainstays in Guangxi.
  甘蔗糖业是广西的重要经济支柱之一，甘蔗生物固氮及其应用的研究对于在甘蔗生产中节约氮肥成本、减少环境污染具有非常重要的意义。
• In a country where fish is one of the economy's mainstays, the result was disaster.
  对于一个以渔业为主要经济支柱的国家，这样的结果是灾难性的。
• However the premier edition added Google Docs& Spreadsheets, a significant edition considering that word processing and spreadsheets are mainstays of Microsoft Office.
  然而在premier版中，还添加了Google文件，这是一个很重要的添加，因为字处理和工作表也是微软Office的支柱。
• Countries where the former mainstays of malaria treatment, such as chloroquine, are no longer effective are also moving forward on new therapies.
  过去采用诸如奎宁等主要疟疾治疗方法而目前不再有效的国家也正在采用新疗法。