sustenance

英 [ˈsʌstənəns]

美 [ˈsʌstənəns]

n.  食物; 营养; 养料; 维持; 保持

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BNC.18478 / COCA.14178

牛津词典

noun

• 食物；营养；养料
  the food and drink that people, animals and plants need to live and stay healthy
  1. There's not much sustenance in a bowl of soup.
     一碗汤没多少营养。
  2. Arguing would only give further sustenance to his allegations.
     越是争论，他越会觉得自己那些说法有道理。
• 维持；保持
  the process of making sth continue to exist
  1. Elections are essential for the sustenance of parliamentary democracy.
     选举制度是维持议会民主所必不可少的。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 食物;营养;养料
  Sustenanceis food or drink which a person, animal, or plant needs to remain alive and healthy.
  1. The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
     国家提供基本的日常食物供应，但除此之外就没什么了。

英英释义

noun

• the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
  1. they were in want of sustenance
  2. fishing was their main sustainment
  Synonym:sustentationsustainmentmaintenanceupkeep
• a source of materials to nourish the body
  Synonym:nutrimentnourishmentnutritionalimentalimentationvictuals
• the financial means whereby one lives
  1. each child was expected to pay for their keep
  2. he applied to the state for support
  3. he could no longer earn his own livelihood
  Synonym:supportkeeplivelihoodlivingbread and butter

双语例句

• There are plenty of things on this island we can use for sustenance.
  这个岛上有很多东西可以食用。
• In rudderless despair and searching for ideological sustenance, he contemplated religion.
  在失去航向的绝望中，在寻求精神食粮的过程中，他想到了宗教。
• Once he thought he was just as spiritual sustenance, but later found out is not the case.
  开始认为只是把他作为精神寄托，但后来发现情况并非如此。
• For all of human history we have depended on nature's bounty for sustenance, well-being and development.
  在整个人类历史中，我们一直依赖大自然的赐予维持生计、增进福祉和谋求发展。
• Its course are enough to give the great bird with itsimmense wings sufficient sustenance and progress.
  这过程足以给这种有特大翅膀的大鸟提供足够的支撑力和前进力了。
• But now, after decades of research, we have come to see that children are human beings whose lives have been warped by those who have given them their life and sustenance and by the society of adults about them.
  但现在，经过几十年的研究之后，我们终于认识到儿童的生命被扭曲了；这是由于赋予他们生命和提供营养品的父母以及他们周围的成人社会所造成的。
• But even then, his sister's loyal friends were irreplaceable, he says, providing both practical and emotional sustenance.
  但即便如此，他姐姐的忠实朋友们也是不可替代的，他说，他们提供了实际的和情感上的寄托。
• The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
  国家提供基本的日常食物供应，但除此之外就没什么了。
• We derive our sustenance from the land.
  我们从土地获取食物。
• This little one scarf, carrying forward the older generation of revolutionaries of our instruction, sustenance of the parents and teachers of our expectations.
  这小小的一方领巾，承载着老一辈革命家对我们的嘱托，寄托了家长和老师对我们的期望。