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sustain

/suh-steyn/US // səˈsteɪn //UK // (səˈsteɪn) //

维持,保持,持续,持续的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
    • : to bear.
    • : to undergo, experience, or suffer; endure without giving way or yielding.
    • : to keep from giving way, as under trial or affliction.
    • : to keep up or keep going, as an action or process: to sustain a conversation.
    • : to supply with food, drink, and other necessities of life.
    • : to provide for by furnishing means or funds.
    • : to support by aid or approval.
    • : to uphold as valid, just, or correct, as a claim or the person making it: The judge sustained the lawyer's objection.
    • : to confirm or corroborate, as a statement: Further investigation sustained my suspicions.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbkeep up, maintain
Forms: sustained, sustaining, sustains
Synonyms
assist帮助,协助,辅助,辅佐bolster长枕头,支持,长枕,长椅buoy浮标,浮泡,浮力continue继续,继续说,延续,继续进行defend保护,防御,辩护,维护help帮助,帮忙,帮忙的,帮助的nurse护士,护理人员,护士长,护理员preserve维护,保存,保全,保护save拯救,保存,节省,挽救aid援助approve批准,核准,认可,通过back背面,背部,背,背后bankroll银行存款,储金,储蓄,银行bear承担,忍受,负担,担当befriend结交朋友,结交,结为好友,结识朋友brace撑腰,绷带,撑起,撑buttress对接,对接点,对接的方式carry携带,搬运,携带物品,运送comfort舒适度,舒适性,舒适,舒适感confirm确认,确定convey输送,运送,输送带,输送机endorse认可,赞成,认同,审批favor赞成,偏爱,宠爱,恩惠feed饲料,喂,饲养,饲喂foster培养,促进,养育,培育lug大块头,大块的,大腿,大耳窿nourish滋养,滋润,滋补,颐养nurture抚育,培养,培育,养育pack驮着,驮运,驮着走,驮着的prolong延长,延续,延展,延长时间propprotract旷日持久,拖延时间,延长时间,延长ratify追认,批准,认可,批复relieve纾解,纾缓,缓解,纾解了supply供应,提供,补给,供应品support支持,支助,支撑,支持率tote手提包,手提袋,手提箱,购物袋transfer移交,转移,转转,移交工作transport运输,交通运输,交通,交通工具uphold支持,坚持,维护,拥护validate认可,确认,验证,鉴定verify验证,核查,核实,核对go for去为,去争取,去找,前往keep alive保住性命,保住生命,保持活力,活着keep from falling不至于跌倒,不至于跌落,跌落,不至于跌伤keep going继续前进,继续,继续走,继续努力lend a hand伸出援手,伸出援助之手,伸出援手吧,伸出援助之手吧provide for规定,供养,赡养,提供shore up补足,支撑,补强,补给stand by站在,支持,站在旁边,经由stick up for拥护,撑腰,捧场,捍卫
Antonyms

Examples

  • To be sure, Russia’s economic ability to sustain its expansionism is questionable.

  • In some countries, officials are concerned not only that Facebook and Google are capturing much of the advertising dollars that have sustained journalism, but also with the types of articles getting shared.

  • The idea is that prices will only face sustained upward pressure when the economy is using all its resources –- including labor.

  • We’re trying to make enough for food, to sustain our households.

  • Earlier, in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, dinosaurs roamed Antarctica because enhanced volcanic activity, in the absence of those mountain chains, sustained carbon dioxide levels around 1,000 parts per million, compared to 415 ppm today.

  • They took me in and helped sustain me in the days that followed.

  • A winning team may pack the stadium, but you need that packed stadium to get top recruits and sustain victories.

  • How long can they sustain this momentum without falling victim to the same pitfalls as nearly every other long-running series?

  • Those were the very ills that you wanted to defeat, not help sustain.

  • Duhozanye has the land and the need, but lacks the $300,000 it will cost to build and sustain.

  • She was therefore prepared to sustain her part in the drama Routemberg was bringing on the tapis.

  • The ability to sustain the tone for a long time will increase, and with it the power of the muscles exercised.

  • Whenever a marriage can be set aside for some illegality, and is not, it will sustain her dower on his death.

  • Previous to this hour the Girondists had wished to sustain the throne, and merely to surround it with free institutions.

  • Those required to sustain life and preserve decency, besides other things to maintain her in her social condition.