| 正面 | 3006.sustain 英 [sə'steɪn]美 [sə'sten]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. sus- "up from below" + -tain.2. => hold up, support, endure.vt. 维持；支撑，承担；忍受；供养；证实 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。 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。 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." |