sustain

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /səˈsteɪn/    美 /səˈsteɪn/|/səˈstæɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
    — To call this music bland is to ignore the down-the-drain vocal fade-aways, the extended sax sustains […]
  2. Clipping of sustainability. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
动词 v.
  1. To maintain, or keep in existence. transitive
    — The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.
  2. To provide for or nourish. transitive
    — provisions to sustain an army
  3. To encourage or sanction (something). transitive
  4. To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.). transitive
    — The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.
  5. To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold. transitive
    — to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
  6. To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
  7. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
    — A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
  8. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
    — When I desir’d their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the use of mine own house, charg’d me on pain of perpetual displeasure neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.

词形变化

sustains present,singular,third-person sustaining participle,present sustained participle,past sustained past sustains plural

词汇关系

衍生词
self-sustaining sustainability sustainable sustainedly sustainer sustaining sustaining program sustainment sustainwash sustainwashing

词源

词源 1
From Middle English susteinen, sustenen, from Old French sustenir (French soutenir), from Latin sustineō, sustinēre (“to uphold”), from sub- (“from below, up”) + teneō (“hold”, verb).
词源 2
From Middle English susteinen, sustenen, from Old French sustenir (French soutenir), from Latin sustineō, sustinēre (“to uphold”), from sub- (“from below, up”) + teneō (“hold”, verb).
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