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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I urge you to continue your good work in sustaining and sharpening Hong Kong's competitive edge.
  我促请各位继续努力，协助维持和提高香港的竞争优势。
• 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 energy sustaining life today is also from the sun.
  今天维持生命的能量也来源于太阳。
• 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？
• 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。
• The EPMO is a significant element in the provision of needed sustaining capabilities and functions for Portfolio Management.
  EPMO是向项目组合管理提供需要的持续能力和功能中的重要要素。
• 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。