英 [ˈsʌstənəns] 美 [ˈsʌstənəns]
n. 食物；生计；支持
sustenance /ˈsʌstənəns/ TEM8
不可数名词 Sustenance is food or drink which a person, animal, or plant needs to remain alive and healthy. 食物
The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
国家提供基本的日常食物供应，仅此而已。
a source of materials to nourish the body
同义词： nutriment / nourishment / nutrition / aliment / alimentation / victuals
the financial means whereby one lives
同义词： support / keep / livelihood / living / bread and butter
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
they were in want of sustenance
同义词： sustentation / sustainment / maintenance / upkeep
食物；生计；支持-引用次数：31
参考来源试论京派小说的女性形象
营养物
李世石很快便将右下角和上边的实地尽数拿下，而韩尚勋则将所有的希望都寄托(Sustenance)在对黑棋左上大龙的攻击上。面对韩尚勋竭尽全力的攻击，李世石也丝毫不敢大意，手筋频发才得以解困。
... 既然输了，如果你实在奈不住寂寞，至少等上大半年，否则你不仅否定了她，也否定了你自己 别在那抱怨你的衣食父母(Sustenance)：“明升88备用网址的那些可爱的球迷们”
竞技场地 sustenance n.支撑力 like [laik] a.类似的 .
sustentacular 支撑的；支持的
sustainer 支持者，维持者；主发动机；支撑的人物
sustentation 支撑，维持；食物
There's not much sustenance in a bowl of soup.
一碗汤没多少营养。
Arguing would only give further sustenance to his allegations.
越是争论，他越会觉得自己那些说法有道理。
Elections are essential for the sustenance of parliamentary democracy.
选举制度是维持议会民主所必不可少的。
I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf So we must keep apart, You there,I here, With just the door ajar That oceans are,And prayer, And that pale sustenance,Despair!
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At the end, the writer doesn't depict him as needing the sacrifice for food or sustenance.
最后，作者也没有把上帝描述成,一个需要贡品来获得食物的人。
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And moreover during the period of the flood they don't have food,they don't have sustenance.
而且，在洪水中，他们找不到食物,没有供给。
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Called whale-fall, the layers of blubber, internal organs and bones can provide sustenance for many years.
The sub-text to these misadventures is that terrorists, whether "bungling amateurs or lethal professionals, " require sustenance.
Both companies have used a kind of sandwich not for sustenance but for tax minimization.