英 [ˈmeɪnsteɪ] 美 [ˈmeɪnsteɪ]
n. 支柱；中流砥柱；主要的依靠；主桅支索
复数mainstays
mainstay /ˈmeɪnˌsteɪ/ TEM8
可数名词 If you describe something as the mainstay of a particular thing, you mean that it is the most basic part of it. 最基本组成部分
Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet.
鱼和米是这个国家的主要食物。
This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labour relations in this country.
这种集体谈判原则已成为该国劳动关系的一个重要基础。
柱石
... "太阳神"号探测器Helios probe 台柱子mainstay;pillar backbone 太空飞行员Taikonaut ...
... ◎ [post] 木柱 ◎ [pillar;mainstay] 引申为支柱,柱本 ◎ [plant] 植物,谷类、花草、树木等的统称 ...
mainstay(骨干), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
... sb is undone玩了，废了，没用了 mainstay支柱 coma昏迷 ...
Cocoa is the country's economic mainstay.
可可是这个国家的经济支柱。
A country lacking short-term liquidity would be loth to approach the IMF for a loan under the "stand-by arrangement", the mainstay of the IMF's crisis lending.
一个缺乏短期流动性的国家可能不愿向国际货币基金组织寻求“备用信贷协议”——IMF 危机贷款的中流砥柱。
Trade was the mainstay of the urban economy in the Middle East, as caravans negotiated the surrounding desert, restricted only by access to water and by mountain ranges.
因为商队只能通过水路和山脉进入沙漠，贸易就成为了中东城市的主要经济支柱。
He says rural India and smaller towns are becoming the mainstay of demand for gold in India.
VOA : standard.2009.09.19
This is a mainstay of some slapstick humor including the classic movie, All of Me.
这是滑稽戏剧的一贯伎俩,同样也出现在经典电影《衰鬼上错身》中
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They are all, you know, very popular. All the mainstay ones.
它们全都非常出名，都是电影业的支柱。
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He's not against the radio telescope surveys that have been the mainstay of SETI for the past 50 years, but he says maybe we're looking for the wrong thing.
VOA : standard.2010.04.16
Ideas platforms have become a mainstay of the innovation process over the past decade.
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Even the Planning Commission admits that female sterilisation has become the mainstay of the programme.
Lifestyle change, including diet and exercise, is the mainstay remedy, although it poses big challenges.