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

• Instead, the US applied the palliative of easy credit sustaining an illusion of economic betterment for all.
  相反，美国采用了治标不治本的放松信贷政策在所有人心中维系了经济改善的幻象。
• 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。
• In this article I introduced the idea of "sustaining" Portfolio Management as an organizational process.
  在本文中，我介绍了将“持续的”项目组合管理作为组织过程的思想。
• 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。
• 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。
• Organic fertilizer and green manure play an important part in the sustaining development of agriculture in Jiangxi Province.
  有机肥和绿肥对江西农业持续发展有着重要的、不可替代的作用。
• 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。
• So must be sustaining support for scientific training and research.
  为科学培训和研究提供支持也必须是至关重要的。
• Most of the issues, however, are eternal: loneliness, difficulty in forming and sustaining relationships.
  不过大部分问题是永恒的：孤独，难以构建和维持情感关系。