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sustainment

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

维持,持续,保持,持续发展

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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

as inmaintenance

Examples

  • Even when the economy and the news advertising market recovers, your support will be a critical part of sustaining our resource-intensive work.

  • Students need to understand that not only are they the benefactors of America’s history of democracy, but must sustain it going forward.

  • To the researchers, this finding suggests that episodic memory—memory of specific past events—was weaker in the heavy media multitaskers, and that heavy media multitaskers have a lower ability to sustain attention.

  • The new findings suggest that the moon’s water ice reserves are sustained in what are called “micro cold traps” that are just a centimeter or less in diameter.

  • People need to double down on a level of precaution that can be sustained for months to come, keeping safe while not adding to their social isolation.

  • It drew sustainment from the dead hand in his grasp, and cowered down to the earth claiming all we touch.

  • The mule had its backers, too; it was the gentler animal, they contended in sustainment of their preference.

  • A right knowledge and apprehension of the past teaches humbleness and self-sustainment to the present.

  • Perhaps she now felt that food necessary to the sustainment of her fiendish designs.

  • Emerson said that The Nation had “breadth, variety, self-sustainment, and an admirable style of thought and expression.”