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

• The challenge of sustaining monetary and price stability in the face of sharply charging coffee prices remains.
  面对咖啡价格猛涨，保持金融和价格稳定的挑战依然存在。
• Industrial systems with the capacity for sustaining growth.
  具有持续增长能力的工业体系。
• I urge you to continue your good work in sustaining and sharpening Hong Kong's competitive edge.
  我促请各位继续努力，协助维持和提高香港的竞争优势。
• The EPMO is a significant element in the provision of needed sustaining capabilities and functions for Portfolio Management.
  EPMO是向项目组合管理提供需要的持续能力和功能中的重要要素。
• Biodiversity changes affect ecosystem functioning and significant disruptions of ecosystems can result in life sustaining ecosystem goods and services.
  生物多样性变化影响生态系统功能，而生态系统遭到严重破坏也可能最终影响到维持生命机体的生态系统货物和服务。
• Is successfully combining the goals of sustaining economic growth and controlling greenhouse gas emissions.
  成功地将实现经济持续增长和控制温室气体排放两大目标相结合。
• 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？
• The key advantage to this is the cost of implementing and sustaining this functionality.
  这其中的关键优势在于这些功能的实现和维护成本。
• 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。
• The answer is American openness building and sustaining an open economy and an open society.
  答案就是美国的开放性建立并保持一个开放的经济以及开放的社会。