sustenance 详细解释

sustenance

['sʌstinəns]

n.维持生计, 营养, 食物

n.[U]

1. 食物, 粮食; 营养(品)

We derive our sustenance from the land.

我们从土地获取食物。

2. 生计

3. 支持, 维持, 供养

词形变化

形容词: sustainable | 名词: sustainability | 动词过去式: sustained | 动词过去分词: sustained | 动词现在分词: sustaining | 动词第三人称单数: sustains |

词义辨析

同义参见:

refreshment  nourishment  diet  meat  maintenance  livelihood  assistance  

英英释义

名词 sustenance:

a source of materials to nourish the body

同义词:nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, aliment, alimentation, victuals

the financial means whereby one lives

同义词:support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter

the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence

同义词:sustentation, sustainment, maintenance, upkeep

补充

sustenancesustenance英:[ˈsʌstinəns] 美:[ˈsʌstənəns]n.1.食物; 营养; 养料

例句

1. The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.政府提供了只够维持基本生计的口粮, 别无他物。 2. He stared at the fishing boat and wondered what kind of life it was to drag sustenance from this hard sea.他盯着那条渔船, 想着靠它在这样一片条件恶劣的海上打鱼为生是怎样一种生活。 3. The camaraderie that came with membership of a fighter squadron appears to have provided a degree of spiritual sustenance.同属一个飞行中队产生的战友情似乎在一定程度上成了精神支柱。 4. Efficiency is an issue of optimising an intricate network of processes for the long-term sustenance of performance standards.效率就是为保证绩效标准长期可持续而对复杂流程网络进行优化的问题。 5. poor rural economies turned to potatoes for sustenance.农村经济贫困,于是把土豆作为食物。 6. he kept two or three cows for the sustenance of his family.他养了两三头奶牛维持家里的生计。 7. the sustenance of parliamentary democracy.议会民主政治的支撑。 8. Tree bark provides deer with sustenance in periods of drought.在干旱时期,鹿靠啃树皮活下来。 9. The village depends on the sea for sustenance.村子里的人靠海为生。 10. She draws spiritual sustenance from daily church attendance.她每天去教堂做礼拜以获得精神寄托。 11. reading for intellectual sustenance获取知识养分的阅读