记忆方法
1. sus- "up from below" + -tain.
2. => hold up, support, endure.
2. => hold up, support, endure.
中文词源
sustain 维持，保持，使持续
sus-,在下，向上，-tain,持，握，词源同 contain,tenure.引申诸相关词义。
英语词源
- sustain (v.)
- c. 1300, "give support to," from stem of Old French sostenir "hold up, bear; suffer, endure" (13c.), from Latin sustinere "hold up, hold upright; furnish with means of support; bear, undergo, endure," from sub "up from below" (see sub-) + tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Meaning "continue, keep up" (an action, etc.) is from early 14c. Sense of "endure without failing or yielding" is from c. 1400. Related: Sustained; sustaining.
权威例句
- 1. There's a sufficiency of drama in these lives to sustain your interest.
- 这些人的生活充满了戏剧性，总能让你兴趣盎然。
- 2. Their defense markets are too small to sustain economically viable production runs.
- 他们的国防市场太小，就经济可行性而言不足以维持生产。
- 3. The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
- 不自量力者往往摔得最惨。
- 4. Naivety bordering on obtuseness helped sustain his faith.
- 近乎鲁钝的天真使他坚守自己的信仰。
- 5. Which planets can sustain life?
- 哪些行星可以维持生命的存在？
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