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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Poetry places rightly the poet's spiritual sustenance in the exact description of the object, showing a high artistic level.
  诗歌在对客体的准确描绘中恰如其分地寄托了主体的精神质素，表现了很高的艺术水平。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He has gone for a week without sustenance.
  他已经一星期未吃食物了。