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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

    双语例句

    • We can not live without some sustenance from the biological point of view, we are heterotrophic aerobic type.
      我们的生活离不开一些寄托,从生物学的角度看,我们就是异养需氧型。
    • This characterizes the Goddess as the source and sustenance of all things.
      这刻写了女神作为来源和所有东西依靠的特征。
    • Plants get nourishment from the soil. We derive our sustenance from the land.
      植物从土壤中吸取养料。我们从土地获取食物。
    • We derive our sustenance from the land.
      我们从土地获取食物。
    • His vanishing sum suggested that he would need sustenance.
      他那逐渐消失的钱提醒他,需要找点生计了。
    • 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。
    • Writing poems, calligraphy, painting and designing are his game and sustenance.
      一生清贫,诗书画及设计工作是我生命中的戏寄托。
    • 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。
    • Thus he truly steeps himself in his literary lover and derives from these books sustenance for his soul.
      这么一来,他真的浸润在他的文学情人的怀抱中,而由这些书籍中获得他的灵魂的食粮。
    • Look, I brought sustenance. Who's first?
      我带了食物来,谁先来?