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

• 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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But now, after decades of research, we have come to see that children are human beings whose lives have been warped by those who have given them their life and sustenance and by the society of adults about them.
  但现在，经过几十年的研究之后，我们终于认识到儿童的生命被扭曲了；这是由于赋予他们生命和提供营养品的父母以及他们周围的成人社会所造成的。
• We derive our sustenance from the land.
  我们从土地获取食物。
• You are my treasure hands, you are my future spiritual sustenance.
  你是我手中的宝，你是我未来的精神寄托。
• 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。
• Sufficient sustenance and progress.
  以足够的浮力和推力。
• 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。
• 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。