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Sustainable 4944.Sustainable 英 Sə'Steɪnəb(ə)L]美 Sə'Stenəbl 释义 Adj 可以忍受的;足可支撑的;养得起的;可持续的

正面 4944.sustainable
英 [sə'steɪnəb(ə)l]美 [sə'stenəbl]

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释义:
adj. 可以忍受的;足可支撑的;养得起的;可持续的
例句:
1. an environmentally sustainable society保持生态环境平衡的社会

1. sus- "up from below" + -tain + -able.2. => hold up, support, endure.
sustainable 维持的,保持的,可持续的sustain,维持,保持,-able,形容词后缀。
sustainable (adj.)1610s, "bearable," from sustain + -able. Attested from 1845 in the sense "defensible;" from 1965 with the meaning "capable of being continued at a certain level." Sustainable growth is recorded from 1965. Related: Sustainably."

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