解释
- n. 食物；生计；支持
※ 提供单词"sustenance"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
sustenance 维持，保持，食物，营养
sustain,维持，保持，-ance,名词后缀。引申词义食物，营养。
英文词源
- sustenance (n.)
- c. 1300, "means of living, subsistence, livelihood," from Old French sostenance "support, aid" (Modern French soutenance), from Late Latin sustinentia "endurance," from present participle stem of Latin sustinere (see sustain). Meaning "action of sustaining life by food" is from late 14c. Sense of "nourishment" is recorded from late 15c. Related: Sustenant.
例句和用法
- 1. There's not much sustenance in a bowl of soup.
- 一碗汤没多少营养。
- 2. He gave money for the sustenance of a poor family.
- 他把钱给一穷人家维持生活.
- 3. The earth brings forth large crops every year for the sustenance of man and beast.
- 大地每年生产出大量的农作物,供人畜食用.
- 4. The currents of air that the walls of the ship direct upwards, as well as in line of its course are enough to give the great bird with its immense wings sufficent sustenance and progress.
- 沿着船壁向上引导的以及与航行方向一致的气流足以给这种长有特大翅膀的大鸟以充分的支撑力和前进力.
- 5. 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.
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