sustenance
英 [ˈsʌstənəns]
美 [ˈsʌstənəns]
n. 食物; 营养; 养料; 维持; 保持
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- There's not much sustenance in a bowl of soup.
一碗汤没多少营养。 - 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。
- There's not much sustenance in a bowl of soup.
- 维持;保持
the process of making sth continue to exist- 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。
- Elections are essential for the sustenance of parliamentary democracy.
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.- 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。
- The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
英英释义
noun
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- they were in want of sustenance
- fishing was their main sustainment
- a source of materials to nourish the body
- the financial means whereby one lives
- each child was expected to pay for their keep
- he applied to the state for support
- he could no longer earn his own livelihood
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?