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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Deliver quality training and documentation for product supporting and sustaining Requirements: 1.
  提供质量体系方面的培训和软件产品支持与维护的相关文件。
• 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。
• Industrial systems with the capacity for sustaining growth.
  具有持续增长能力的工业体系。
• How important is funding in promoting and sustaining South – South research collaboration?
  ­在促进和维持南南研究协作方面，资助有多重要？
• 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。