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。
• 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。
• By their nature, such policies work by sustaining demand and so output.
  从本质来看，这些政策通过保持需求和产出而奏效。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。