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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• That stimulates money markets indispensable for kick-starting bank lending to businesses and households and for sustaining economic recovery.
  这将对货币市场形成刺激要想启动银行对企业的放贷，并维持经济复苏态势，这种刺激不可或缺。