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 advantage to this is the cost of implementing and sustaining this functionality.
  这其中的关键优势在于这些功能的实现和维护成本。
• 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。
• Biodiversity changes affect ecosystem functioning and significant disruptions of ecosystems can result in life sustaining ecosystem goods and services.
  生物多样性变化影响生态系统功能，而生态系统遭到严重破坏也可能最终影响到维持生命机体的生态系统货物和服务。
• These people spent an average of eight years of terror in death confines, sustaining tremendous mental trauma.
  这些重新获得自由的人在死刑囚室里平均度过了8年的恐怖时光，遭受了巨大的精神创伤。
• Most industrial customers seem to be sustaining their business.
  大多数工业客户似乎可以维持其业务。
• 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。
• But this can only be achieved by both sustaining and accelerating this momentum over the next decade and beyond.
  但要做到这一点，就必须在今后十年及以后保持并加快这种势头。
• One lesson is the importance of sustaining a technological edge and sound economic policies.
  第一个教训就是体认维系科技优势与正确经济政策的重要性。
• 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 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。