sustain
/səˈsteɪn/ 动词 B2中文： 维持、供养
- To maintain, or keep in existence. · The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.· The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces.
- To provide for or nourish. · provisions to sustain an army
- To encourage or sanction (something).
- To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.). · The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.
- To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold. · to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
- To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
- 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.
- To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
He/she/it sustains · 过去式 sustained · 过去分词 sustained · -ing形式 sustaining
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- He/she/it
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- 过去式
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- 过去分词
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- -ing形式
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To this dumb language, which was so unintelligible to others, she answered by throwing her whole soul into the expression of her countenance, and in this manner were the conversations sustained between the blooming girl and the helpless invalid, whose body could scarcely be called a living one, but who, nevertheless, possessed a fund of knowledge and penetration, united with a will as powerful as ever although clogged by a body rendered utterly incapable of obeying its impulses.
The bandit gazed on this scene with amazement; he was evidently accustomed to see his prisoners tremble before him, and yet here was one whose gay temperament was not for a moment altered; as for Franz, he was enchanted at the way in which Albert had sustained the national honor in the presence of the bandit.
“Ah, you shall see; I promise you I will sustain my part to admiration.”
Noirtier the unwelcome meal that sustains his pitiful existence.
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