Sustain

[sə'steɪn] or [sə'sten]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) admit as valid; 'The court sustained the motion'.

(verb.) supply with necessities and support; 'She alone sustained her family'; 'The money will sustain our good cause'; 'There's little to earn and many to keep'.

編輯:奥尔加--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

(v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.

(v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

(v. t.) To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

(v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.

(v. t.) To suffer; to bear; to undergo.

(v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.

(v. t.) To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.

(n.) One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Bear, support, uphold, preserve, hold up, keep from falling.[2]. Nourish, maintain, subsist, keep alive, supply with food.[3]. Suffer, undergo, endure.[4]. Sanction, approve, confirm, ratify.[5]. Justify, prove, establish, confirm.

校對:伦道夫

同義詞及反義詞：

[See SUPPORT]

編輯:迈尔斯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to hold up: to bear: to maintain: to relieve: to prove: to sanction: to prolong.—adjs. Sustain′able that may be sustained; Sustained′ kept up at one uniform pitch.—ns. Sustain′er one who or that which sustains; Sustain′ment act of sustaining sustenance; Sus′tenance that which sustains: maintenance: provisions.—adj. Sustentac′ular supporting pertaining to a Sustentac′ulum a support or sustaining tissue esp. an inferior spine of the tarsus in spiders of the genus Epeira.—v.t. Sus′tentāte to sustain.—n. Sustentā′tion that which sustains: support: maintenance.—adj. Susten′tative sustaining.—ns. Sus′tentātor a sustaining part or structure; Susten′tion the act of sustaining; Susten′tor one of two posterior projections of a butterfly-chrysalis.—Sustentation Fund the scheme by which the ministers of the Free Church of Scotland are supported by voluntary contributions not local or congregational but with a national altruism or solidarity paid into a great central fund out of which equal stipends are paid to all alike.

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