英 [səˈsteɪn] 美 [səˈsteɪn]
v. 维持，保持；维持……的生命；遭受，经受；（在体力或精神方面）支持，支撑；承受住……的重量；证实，证明；认可，赞成，确认；（演员）充分表演（角色，人物），扮演
n. （乐）延音
第三人称单数sustains
现在分词sustaining
过去式sustained
过去分词sustained
sustain /səˈsteɪn/ CET4 TEM4 [ sustaining sustained sustains ]
及物动词 If you sustain something, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time. 保持
He has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age.
他从青年时代到晚年一直保持着强烈的社会良知。
Recovery can't be sustained unless more jobs are created.
除非有更多的工作机会被创造出来，否则复苏无法保持下去。
及物动词 If you sustain something such as a defeat, loss, or injury, it happens to you. 遭受
Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage.
那里的每架飞机都遭到了一些损坏。
及物动词 If something sustains you, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement. 支撑
The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season.
他们从经济作物中得到的那些现金红利能支撑他们度过歉收季节。
admit as valid
The court sustained the motion
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
同义词： confirm / corroborate / substantiate / support / affirm
可持续-引用次数：91
"Water is the fountain of life ",and also the important material base for a city to sustain growth of production.
“水是生命的源泉”，是城市可持续发展的重要物质基础。
参考来源大连市水资源的开发与利用
支持-引用次数：11
So the city should offer people space to act. the space should sustain the action.
空间中要体现对行为发生的支持。
参考来源行为价值体系与城市空间系统
·常清洁(Sanitise)：始终保持工作环境,设备,仪器,以及材料的清洁.·常维持(Sustain)：养成坚持的习惯，并辅以一定的监督检查措施。
2、网孔：30公分3、网孔形状：菱形4、缝合绳：8毫米5、横向支撑（sustain）绳：16毫米6、纵向支撑（sustain）绳：12毫米7、钢丝绳锚杆(Bolt)：16毫米8、内网：格栅网主动防护网工程(Engin...
S保持（sustain）：他决定在衰减后音量保持的大小，与其他三个不同的是他并不代表保持的时间长短，形象的说当你按下键盘不松手，持续发声时的音量...
... stunt阻碍发育；妨碍生长 sustain遭受；维持，持续；支撑 thaw融化；解冻 ...
sustainable 可以忍受的；足可支撑的；养得起的
sustained 持续的；持久的；持久不变的
sustained 维持（sustain的过去式和过去分词）；承受
Which planets can sustain life?
哪些行星可以维持生命的存在？
The ice will not sustain your weight.
这冰承受不了你的体重。
The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season.
他们从经济作物中得到的那些现金红利能支撑他们度过歉收季节。
"During that time she can make regular income and she has a savings account and she begins to study and plan for launching a business, which is her business and which will sustain her once she graduates from BeadforLife.
VOA : special.2010.06.28
With any innovation, it's important not only to launch it properly but also to consider how to sustain it over time.
对于任何发明，重要的不仅仅是,正确的使用它，还要考虑,怎样维护它。
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So we're talking about a poem being able to sustain itself in the world to be equal to the world.
因此，一首高贵的诗歌能够,在这个世界中维持自我并与这个世界媲美。
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"Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - NATO has struggled,at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of twenty-five thousand to forty-five thousand troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets."
VOA : special.2011.06.11
Batstone-Carr says he thinks BP is strong enough to sustain this double-blow to its bank balance and its reputation.
VOA : standard.2010.06.18
There's one group of fiscal conservatives nearly enough to sustain a filibuster of the spending bill.
Second, we will sustain what have been among the most extensive sanctions in UN history.
Although Argentina's recovery is more or less complete, it must now introduce policies to sustain growth.