sustained

1. VERB 使持续;保持
   If you sustain something, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time.
   1. But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age...
      而他从青年时期一直到老年都始终保持着强烈的社会良知。
   2. The parameters within which life can be sustained on Earth are extraordinarily narrow.
      地球上生命可以存活下来的地域范围是非常狭小的。
   3. ...a period of sustained economic growth throughout 1995.
      1995 年全年经济持续增长时期
2. VERB 经受;遭受;蒙受
   If you sustain something such as a defeat, loss, or injury, it happens to you.
   1. Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage...
      那里的每架飞机都受到了一些损坏。
   2. A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday's bomb blast.
      一位 17 岁的游客在昨天的炸弹爆炸中受伤并于当天深夜身亡。
3. VERB 支持;支援;救济
   If something sustains you, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement.
   1. The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season...
      从经济作物中获得的收益能帮助他们度过不景气的时期。
   2. I am sustained by letters of support and what people say to me in ordinary daily life...
      这些支持的信件和人们每天对我的鼓励一直支撑着我。
   3. Sustained by this wonderful breakfast, it was with restored morale that we re-boarded our plane.
      这顿丰盛的早餐补充了我们的体力，我们又精神焕发地登上了飞机。

1. He sustained serious neck injuries after he broke someone's fall.
   有人坠落压在他身上，致使他颈部受重伤。
2. We don't have the confidence that the UN will carry through a sustained program
   我们不相信联合国能够将一个长久的项目执行到底。
3. The north cannot achieve sustained economic development without the south, he added in his closing remarks.
   在结束语中他补充说，没有南方，北方就无法实现经济上的可持续发展。
4. Grandfather Dingsdale had sustained a broken back while working in the mines. Consequently, he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair
   丁斯戴尔爷爷在矿井里工作时被压断了脊骨，结果，下半辈子都与轮椅为伴了。
5. Witnesses say the firing was deliberate and sustained.
   目击者说枪击是蓄意而且持续的。
6. I've never done any sustained writing, but that might be one of my next directions.
   我以前从未尝试过持续写作，不过那可能是我下一步努力的方向之一。
7. He appeared embarrassed and ill at ease with the sustained applause that greeted him.
   向他致意的掌声一直不歇，他显得有些难为情，不知如何是好。
8. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.
   美国在该地区拥有足够的火力发动持续的空中打击。
9. At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.
   超过90岁的所有女性中至少有1/3已经出现髋骨骨折。
10. Four police officers sustained serious injuries in the explosion
    4名警官在爆炸中受重伤。
11. Your anxiety is a learned reaction, and it is nurtured and sustained by the events of your everyday life.
    人的焦虑是后天反应，由日常生活中的事件催生和维系。
12. Now the cheers and applause mingled in a single sustained roar
    现在，欢呼声和掌声汇成了一片持续的喧闹声。
13. 'I very much regret the injuries he sustained,' he said
    “我对他的受伤感到很遗憾，”他说。
14. But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age
    而他从青年时期一直到老年都始终保持着强烈的社会良知。
15. The parameters within which life can be sustained on Earth are extraordinarily narrow.
    地球上生命可以存活下来的地域范围是非常狭小的。
16. Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage
    那里的每架飞机都受到了一些损坏。
17. A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday's bomb blast.
    一位17岁的游客在昨天的炸弹爆炸中受伤并于当天深夜身亡。
18. I am sustained by letters of support and what people say to me in ordinary daily life
    这些支持的信件和人们每天对我的鼓励一直支撑着我。
19. Sustained by this wonderful breakfast, it was with restored morale that we re-boarded our plane.
    这顿丰盛的早餐补充了我们的体力，我们又精神焕发地登上了飞机。
20. How such extensive damage could have been sustained so quickly remains unexplained.
    如何这么快就造成这么大的破坏依然不得而知。
21. He was sustained by the unflagging support of his family
    他得到了家人不断的支持。
22. The army sustained a reverse.
    这支军队打了败仗。
23. Without correct leadership, the enthusiasm of the masses cannot be sustained.
    没有正确的领导，群众的积极性就不可能持久。
24. The ship sustained damage to her bottom.
    这艘船的船底已损坏。
25. He has sustained a great loss by the death of his father.
    他父亲的去世使他蒙受巨大的损失。
26. Objective: to prepare the acemetacin sustained release tablets AC and study the influencing factors.
    目的：制备阿西美辛缓释片并对释药因素进行考察。
27. We mounted a sustained attack on the government.
    我们对政府展开了持续的抨击。
28. Thrive on the sustained health of the community and its members through continual reflection and improvement.
    通过持续的反映和提高，促进社区和成员的持续健康。
29. I certainly hope that this can be sustained.
    我当然希望这可以持续下去。
30. China's sustained and rapid economic development, led to the development of freight forwarding and logistics.
    中国经济持续高速发展，带动了货代和物流的发展。

adj

1. (of an electric arc) continuous
   1. heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs

   Synonym:    free burning

2. maintained at length without interruption or weakening
   1. sustained flight