Sustain

(verb.) admit as valid; 'The court sustained the motion'.

(verb.) supply with necessities and support; 'She alone sustained her family'; 'The money will sustain our good cause'; 'There's little to earn and many to keep'.

编辑:奥尔加

• Mutual confidence will sustain us to the end! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Earnestness is what that Somebody must look for, to sustain him and improve him, Trot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The greater part of goods, besides, are more perishable than money, and he may frequently sustain a much greater loss by keeping them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The Lady Rowena, he said, possesses not the language in which to reply to your courtesy, or to sustain her part in your festival. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• You should sustain yourself better. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But the French Admiralty refused to sustain him, one old admiral saying, Thank God, France still fights her battles on the surface, not beneath it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Dear, bequeath me that great patience Which has power to sustain A cheerful, uncomplaining spirit In its prison-house of pain. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• This Ph?nician alliance sustained him, and was the essential element in the greatness of his son Solomon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The patent was infringed and assailed, but finally sustained by the highest courts of England. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A sort of renewed youth glowed in his eye and colour, and an invigorated hope and settled purpose sustained his bearing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The heaviest loss sustained by the enemy was in front of these two divisions. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This unity is like the sun in the heavens, the light by which all things are seen, the being by which they are created and sustained. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Sir Richard Webster, now Chief-Justice of England, was my counsel, and sustained all of my patents in England for many years. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He was so strong, so sustaining, and he could not be opposed. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Always, this flame had burned in his heart, sustaining him through everything, the welfare of the people. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This new life of the Doctor's was an anxious life, no doubt; still, the sagacious Mr. Lorry saw that there was a new sustaining pride in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It weighed fifty-eight pounds, had an engine of between two and a half and three horse-p ower, and a sustaining surface of sixty-six square feet. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• If it is in the way of school,' said Bradley, always sustaining his dark look at the other, and speaking in his suppressed voice, 'you may. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I had had no purpose, no sustaining soul within me, anywhere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He himself called this a strong measure, but observed that his health was less capable of sustaining excitement than he had imagined. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We do not yet understand what causes the heat of the sun or what sustains that undying fire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If called upon to name the most important of all factors of human existence, that which underlies and sustains all others, even to life itself, everyone must agree that it is _food_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Certainly, the exemplary Mrs. Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And I believe I know (indeed, not to make any ridiculous pretence about it, I know I know) who sustains you in it, Mr Merdle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The building in which I found myself contained the machinery which produces that artificial atmosphere which sustains life on Mars. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

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