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

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。
This will provide strong intellectual impetus for sustaining China's economic development.
这将为中国经济持续发展提供强大的智力支撑。
We are fully capable of sustaining steady and fast economic growth.
我们完全有能力维持稳定快速的经济增长。
Organic fertilizer and green manure play an important part in the sustaining development of agriculture in Jiangxi Province.
有机肥和绿肥对江西农业持续发展有着重要的、不可替代的作用。
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。
One lesson is the importance of sustaining a technological edge and sound economic policies.
第一个教训就是体认维系科技优势与正确经济政策的重要性。
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。
How important is funding in promoting and sustaining South – South research collaboration?
在促进和维持南南研究协作方面，资助有多重要？
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。
The key point of characters fate lies in its sustaining point.
而安排人物命运的重点，却在于其生命的支撑点上。