sustain的双解释义

1. 【音】继续演奏某一音符的效果

1. 支持，支撑
2. 蒙受，遭受
3. 证实，证明
4. 确认，认可
5. 供养，养（家）
6. 忍受，忍耐
7. 维持，保持
8. 承担，承受
9. 加强
10. 支援，补养，救济
11. 使...持续；继续
12. 鼓舞
13. 禁得起
14. 【律】确认；承认
15. 扮演，能扮演（角色） ， 善于表演（性格）
16. 能胜任
17. 准许

1. lengthen or extend in duration or space;

   "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"
   "prolong the treatment of the patient"
   "keep up the good work"
   

2. undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);

   "She suffered a fracture in the accident"
   "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"
   "She got a bruise on her leg"
   "He got his arm broken in the scuffle"
   

3. provide with nourishment;

   "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"
   "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"
   

4. supply with necessities and support;

   "She alone sustained her family"
   "The money will sustain our good cause"
   "There's little to earn and many to keep"
   

5. be the physical support of; carry the weight of;

   "The beam holds up the roof"
   "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"
   "What's holding that mirror?"
   

6. admit as valid;

   "The court sustained the motion"
   

7. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;

   "his story confirmed my doubts"
   "The evidence supports the defendant"
   

1.使持续;保持
If yousustain something, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

2.经受;遭受;蒙受
If yousustain something such as a defeat, loss, or injury, it happens to you.

e.g. Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage...
那里的每架飞机都受到了一些损坏。
e.g. A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday's bomb blast.
一位 17 岁的游客在昨天的爆炸中受伤并于当天深夜身亡。

3.支持;支援;救济
If somethingsustains you, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement.

e.g. The cash dividends they get from the cash crop wouldsustain 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。
e.g. 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。

• sustain an attempt经受尝试
• sustain a defeat吃败仗
• sustain the injury受到伤害
• sustain life支撑生活
• sustain losses蒙受损失

• sustain faithfully有诚意地认可
• sustain materially从物质上维持
• sustain precisely确认有效
• sustain spiritually从精神上坚持

• The excitement which had sustained him..had begun to ebb.

  出自：P. G. Wodehouse

• There was something to sustain me over the next four weeks.

  出自：J. Braine

1. sustain的基本意思是“承受住重量”,指不断支撑或维持不衰弱。有时也可表示通过提供必需的物质或精神的营养品以支持某人、某事物。引申为“经受”。还可表示“确认…正当有效”“准许”。
2. sustain是及物动词,接名词、代词作宾语。可用于被动结构。

1. sustain有时指“遭受”，但同suffer，receive，get等比较，sustain的这个用法不普遍，一般用在injury，loss，leak，bruise，defeat等词的前面。