英:[səs'teɪnd]
美:[səˈstend]
英:[səs'teɪnd]
美:[səˈstend]
adj.
持久的,持续的
v.
维持( sustain的过去式和过去分词 )
支撑
忍受
长期保持
词根:sustain
adj.sustainable 可以忍受的;足可支撑的;养得起的
n.sustainability 持续性;永续性;能维持性
sustainer 支持者,维持者;主发动机;支撑的人物
sustentation 支撑,维持;食物
vt.sustain 维持;支撑,承担;忍受;供养;证实
adjective
maintained at length without interruption or weakening : lasting, prolonged providing sustained support sustained applause sustained flight They can run at sustained speeds of up to 19 mph for considerable distances, and usually only make short flights in order to escape danger or flush prey.—Marcy Scott This degenerative disorder is theoretically caused by excessive and sustained forces of compression.—Tracy A. Turner
sustained winds
sustained growth持续增长
sustained economic growth经济持续增长
sustained attention持续注意
持续
The first known use of sustained was in 1775
1 Michael Varus had told him that the spirits here were sustained by their strongest desires.
2 She looks so proud that I add, “And it wasn’t just a storm—it was a category four hurricane with sustained winds of one hundred and forty-five miles per hour.”
3 Look to the Southeast, where, as Taylor has noted, “colonial societies sustained a slave system more oppressive than anything practiced in Europe” and “the slave-owners relied on Indians to catch runaways.”
4 He sustained an injury to his spine when he fell off his horse.
他从马上摔下来,伤了脊梁骨。
5 Either way, he’d have to swallow down everything—no matter how bitter it tasted—so they could get back to the dream that had sustained them for years.
6 Over the next few weeks, fierce battles were fought and both sides sustained casualties.
7 But try as she might to reach for that anger, that rage that had sustained her all these months, whenever she grasped for it, she saw Palo Kanta.
8 Indigenous peoples sustained their populations not only by adapting to their specific natural environments but also by changing their environments to meet their needs.
9 When the jet was returned, it had sustained $100,000 worth of damage.
10 ‘All of us are drawn here, sustained not only by Gaia’s power but also by our strongest desires. Eurymachus’s greed. Antinous’s cruelty.’
11 The fortifications at Jericho were an enterprise of this kind, requiring sustained and specialized labor over a long period.
12 The crowds by the rails thickened, their faces a pointillism of colors, the dappling sound of distinct voices now blending into a sustained shout.
13 As a family, we sustained ourselves with humble luxuries.
14 They failed despite their sustained efforts.
尽管他们不懈地努力,结果还是失败了。
15 She knew that Taisin might have sustained other, less visible, injuries, but she had no idea how to treat them.
16 “Did you know at the time,” Knabe said, voice rising, “that he sustained that the state law didn’t apply at all in the city of Montgomery?”
17 “He knew that one day the earth would be empty of life except what was sustained beneath the ground.”
18 Of course, one seeks to provide a general, sustained service to one's employer, the value of which could never be reduced to a number of specific instances - such as that concerning Lord Halifax.
19 In my mind’s eye I saw reduced to soot all those wonderful books, which had revealed to me other ways of living, which had sustained me in a world of degradation.
20 In the days after, five more sustained fatal injuries, prompting Churchill officials to move their races to another Kentucky racetrack.
1 持续
sostenuto standing steady persistent perdurable ceaselessly tenuto maintenance persistence sustenance continuance be last hold continue stand stick endure persist perseverate perdure support maintain span sustain uninterrupted solid running continuous continued lasting sitting enduring flowing lingering continuation run perpetuate go on run on hold out organic never-ending unrelenting insistent persevering away go extend proceed continuing sustaining durative hand-running duration durance bide
3 坚持不懈的
5 坚定的
strong firm sturdy urgent convinced committed gritty confirmed steadfast staunch resolute steely unyielding resolved implacable inbred unswerving full-blooded unfaltering unbending
6 持久
firm constant permanent standing steady longtime enduring serviceable indelible abiding long-lived long-drawn-out tract fixation last stand remain endure persist keep durable lasting evergreen long-lasting long-running protracted unflagging permanently permanence persistent everlasting unremitting persevering for keeps unkillable sustaining perdurable continuate stay duration endurance persistence sustenance persistency hold perdure
7 坚定
strong firm sturdy urgent convinced committed gritty confirmed steadfast staunch resolute steely unyielding resolved implacable inbred unswerving full-blooded unfaltering unbending strongly steadfastly robustly staunchly with a will