sustained

英 [səˈsteɪnd]

美 [səˈsteɪnd]

v.  维持(生命、生存); 使保持; 使稳定持续; 遭受; 蒙受; 经受
sustain的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：sustained　过去式：sustained　

TOEFLGRE计算机

BNC.6136 / COCA.6509

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使持续;保持
  If yousustainsomething, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. ...a period of sustained economic growth throughout 1995.
     1995 年全年经济持续增长时期
• VERB 经受;遭受;蒙受
  If yousustainsomething such as a defeat, loss, or injury, it happens to you.
  1. Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage...
     那里的每架飞机都受到了一些损坏。
  2. A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday's bomb blast.
     一位 17 岁的游客在昨天的炸弹爆炸中受伤并于当天深夜身亡。
• VERB 支持;支援;救济
  If somethingsustainsyou, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement.
  1. The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain 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。
  2. 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。
  3. Sustained by this wonderful breakfast, it was with restored morale that we re-boarded our plane.
     这顿丰盛的早餐补充了我们的体力，我们又精神焕发地登上了飞机。

英英释义

adj

• (of an electric arc) continuous
  1. heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs
  Synonym:free burning
• maintained at length without interruption or weakening
  1. sustained flight

双语例句

• 'I very much regret the injuries he sustained,' he said
  “我对他的受伤感到很遗憾，”他说。
• Your anxiety is a learned reaction, and it is nurtured and sustained by the events of your everyday life.
  人的焦虑是后天反应，由日常生活中的事件催生和维系。
• He sustained serious neck injuries after he broke someone's fall.
  有人坠落压在他身上，致使他颈部受重伤。
• At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.
  超过90岁的所有女性中至少有1/3已经出现髋骨骨折。
• Sustained by this wonderful breakfast, it was with restored morale that we re-boarded our plane.
  这顿丰盛的早餐补充了我们的体力，我们又精神焕发地登上了飞机。
• He was sustained by the unflagging support of his family
  他得到了家人不断的支持。
• I certainly hope that this can be sustained.
  我当然希望这可以持续下去。
• We don't have the confidence that the UN will carry through a sustained program
  我们不相信联合国能够将一个长久的项目执行到底。
• 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。
• 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。