sustenance
英 [ˈsʌstənəns]
美 [ˈsʌstənəns]
n. 食物; 营养; 养料; 维持; 保持
BNC.18478 / COCA.14178
牛津词典
noun
- 食物；营养；养料
the food and drink that people, animals and plants need to live and stay healthy- 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。
- There's not much sustenance in a bowl of soup.
- 维持；保持
the process of making sth continue to exist- 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。
- Elections are essential for the sustenance of parliamentary democracy.
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 食物;营养;养料
Sustenanceis food or drink which a person, animal, or plant needs to remain alive and healthy.- 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，但除此之外就没什么了。
- The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
英英释义
noun
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- they were in want of sustenance
- fishing was their main sustainment
- a source of materials to nourish the body
- the financial means whereby one lives
- each child was expected to pay for their keep
- he applied to the state for support
- he could no longer earn his own livelihood
双语例句
- Its course are enough to give the great bird with itsimmense wings sufficient sustenance and progress.
这过程足以给这种有特大翅膀的大鸟提供足够的支撑力和前进力了。 - Once he thought he was just as spiritual sustenance, but later found out is not the case.
开始认为只是把他作为精神寄托，但后来发现情况并非如此。 - His vanishing sum suggested that he would need sustenance.
他那逐渐消失的钱提醒他，需要找点生计了。 - Look, I brought sustenance. Who's first?
我带了食物来，谁先来？ - In rudderless despair and searching for ideological sustenance, he contemplated religion.
在失去航向的绝望中，在寻求精神食粮的过程中，他想到了宗教。 - Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls.
精神是我们内心的一丛的火焰，是喂养我们灵魂的神秘食物。 - Thus he truly steeps himself in his literary lover and derives from these books sustenance for his soul.
这么一来，他真的浸润在他的文学情人的怀抱中，而由这些书籍中获得他的灵魂的食粮。 - 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，但除此之外就没什么了。 - But now, after decades of research, we have come to see that children are human beings whose lives have been warped by those who have given them their life and sustenance and by the society of adults about them.
但现在，经过几十年的研究之后，我们终于认识到儿童的生命被扭曲了；这是由于赋予他们生命和提供营养品的父母以及他们周围的成人社会所造成的。 - Writing poems, calligraphy, painting and designing are his game and sustenance.
一生清贫，诗书画及设计工作是我生命中的戏寄托。