| 单词 | sustain |
| 释义 | sustain (once / 155 pages) v Sustain means to support something or keep it going. If you get hungry in the mid-afternoon, you might try snacking to sustain your energy through dinner. Beams and rafters sustain a roof––they keep it up. If you sustain a conversation over the course of hours, you keep it going during that time. If you sustain an injury, it means you are injured. If you sustain an interest in what you're studying, it means that you're just as excited about the subject after studying as you are when you began. WORD FAMILYsustain: sustainable, sustained, sustainer, sustaining, sustainment, sustains, sustenance+/sustainable: sustainability, sustainably/sustained: self-sustained, sustainedly/sustainer: sustainers/sustaining: self-sustaining/sustainment: sustainments/sustenance: sustenances USAGE EXAMPLES“Sustaining this policy will allow for further opening, further travel, further U.S. business opportunities.” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) An officer sustained a minor injury to his hand, Nicholson said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Post-mortem tests confirmed he died from injuries sustained in the fall. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1v lengthen or extend in duration or space We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible Syn|Hypo|Hyper keep up, prolong continue, keep, keep on, retain allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last 2v supply with necessities and support She alone sustained her family The money will sustain our good cause Syn|Hypo|Hyper keep, maintain patronage support by being a patron of reseedmaintain by seeding without human intervention carrykeep up with financial support have, have got, hold have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense 3v provide with nourishment We sustained ourselves on bread and water Syn|Hypo|Hyper nourish, nurture carry be able to feed cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance 4v be the physical support of; carry the weight of Syn|Hypo hold, hold up, support scaffold provide with a scaffold for support blocksupport, secure, or raise with a block carrybear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of chocksupport on chocks buoy, buoy upkeep afloat polesupport on poles bracketsupport with brackets underpinsupport from beneath prop, prop up, shore, shore upsupport by placing against something solid or rigid trusssupport structurally bracesupport by bracing bolsterprop up with a pillow or bolster treadbrace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center 5v admit as valid The court sustained the motion Hyper acknowledge, admit declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of 6v establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts Syn|Ant|Hypo affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support contradict, negate prove negative; show to be false back, back up establish as valid or genuine vouchgive supporting evidence verifyconfirm the truth of demonstrate, establish, prove, shew, showestablish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment documentsupport or supply with references validateprove valid; show or confirm the validity of something check, check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick offput a check mark on or near or next to ascertain, assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to itbe careful or certain to do something; make certain of something checkverify by consulting a source or authority prove oneselfshow one's ability or courage proveprove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof sourcespecify the origin of contradict, negateprove negative; show to be false stultifyprove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence 7v undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) Syn|Hypo|Hyper get, have, suffer have suffer from; be ill with break down, collapse collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack crampsuffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle break up, collapse, crack, crack up, crock upsuffer a nervous breakdown drop like fliesrapidly collapse, die, or drop out in large numbers fall over, go overfall forward and down experience, get, have, receive go through (mental or physical states or experiences) |
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