sustenance

英 [ˈsʌstənəns]

美 [ˈsʌstənəns]

n.  食物; 营养; 养料; 维持; 保持

TOEFLIELTSGRETEM8法律

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

• According to Hasna, sustainability is a process which tells of a development of all aspects of human life affecting sustenance.
  据Hasna，可持续性是一个过程，讲述了一个发展的各个方面影响到人类生命的寄托。
• 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。
• Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls.
  精神是我们内心的一丛的火焰，是喂养我们灵魂的神秘食物。
• 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。
• 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。
• Look, I brought sustenance. Who's first?
  我带了食物来，谁先来？
• 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。
• 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。
• I lay on the bed I suffer," the Bible "has become my only spiritual sustenance.
  躺在病榻上的我我苦不堪言，《圣经》便成为我唯一的精神寄托。
• And exactly how are we gonna find this sustenance?
  那么我们怎样可以找到食物？