mainstay 的定义
- Nautical. the stay that secures the mainmast forward.
- a person or thing that acts as a chief support or part: Coffee is the mainstay of the country's economy.
mainstay 近义词
chief support
更多mainstay例句
- Helium use started in 1927 and has been a mainstay of the parade since, with the exception of the year 1958, when a global helium shortage kept the balloons closer to earth.
- Founded by Hong Kong immigrant Patrick Lo in 1996, Netgear set up shop in San Jose, California, and has been a mainstay of networking hardware since the dawn of the internet.
- Bread at the readyWarm, crusty, butter-melting bread that comes straight from the oven—or at least out of a professional warmer—is a mainstay in countless eateries.
- Taking on Big Tech has been a mainstay in the national conversation ever since the 2016 Presidential election, but this is the first antitrust action taken against Google.
- They now share the blocks with mainstays such as Floriana and JR.
- Eventually, DeCrow and Seidenberg filed suit against the East Village mainstay.
- De Robertis, an East Village mainstay, closes tomorrow—a moment for nostalgia, but also pragmatism.
- Conceptually, the “Angel of Death” was a cultural mainstay in continental Europe and the British Isles by the late Middle Ages.
- Foreign fighters are a mainstay of the rebellion against Assad.
- The one problem with Braley's remark is that it happened to reflect on a fellow Iowan who is a mainstay of Hawkeye State politics.
- It is with profound regret that we cannot point to Harwood as a football hero or the mainstay of the crew.
- We find a strong offset to the horror of Aztec cruelty in the very Bible, which we regard as the mainstay of our religious world.
- Many of the Americans now fancied, like the British, that since Lee was a prisoner their mainstay was gone.
- We have been told ad nauseam that the purchase system has been the mainstay of the British army.
- Panto was indeed the mainstay of his business; it was even the warp and woof of his life.