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VERB
使持續;保持
If you sustain something, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time.
例句
But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age...
而他從青年時期一直到老年都始終保持著強烈的社會良知。
The parameters within which life can be sustained on Earth are extraordinarily narrow.
地球上生命可以存活下來的地域范圍是非常狹小的。
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VERB
經受;遭受;蒙受
If you sustain something such as a defeat, loss, or injury, it happens to you.
例句
Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage...
那里的每架飛機都受到了一些損壞。
A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday's bomb blast.
一位 17 歲的游客在昨天的炸彈爆炸中受傷并于當天深夜身亡。
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VERB
支持;支援;救濟
If something sustains you, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement.
例句
The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season...
從經濟作物中獲得的收益能幫助他們度過不景氣的時期。
I am sustained by letters of support and what people say to me in ordinary daily life...
這些支持的信件和人們每天對我的鼓勵一直支撐著我。