sustenance

noun

1. 食物；营养；养料
   the food and drink that people, animals and plants need to live and stay healthy
   1. There's not much sustenance in a bowl of soup.
      一碗汤没多少营养。
   2. Arguing would only give further sustenance to his allegations.
      越是争论，他越会觉得自己那些说法有道理。
2. 维持；保持
   the process of making sth continue to exist
   1. Elections are essential for the sustenance of parliamentary democracy.
      选举制度是维持议会民主所必不可少的。

1. N-UNCOUNT 食物;营养;养料
   Sustenance is food or drink which a person, animal, or plant needs to remain alive and healthy.
   1. The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
      国家提供基本的日常食物供应，但除此之外就没什么了。

1. The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
   国家提供基本的日常食物供应，但除此之外就没什么了。
2. But now, after decades of research, we have come to see that children are human beings whose lives have been warped by those who have given them their life and sustenance and by the society of adults about them.
   但现在，经过几十年的研究之后，我们终于认识到儿童的生命被扭曲了；这是由于赋予他们生命和提供营养品的父母以及他们周围的成人社会所造成的。
3. For all of human history we have depended on nature's bounty for sustenance, well-being and development.
   在整个人类历史中，我们一直依赖大自然的赐予维持生计、增进福祉和谋求发展。
4. When, he wondered, had the beast itself last eaten? Surely it would need sustenance before long?
   他不知道这巨龙上一次吃东西是在什么时候，它肯定要不多久就会需要食物了吧？
5. Food and Drink: sustenance when people need it, without needing to interrupt the flow of work.
   食物和饮料：需要的时候就能拿到，不会干扰当前工作。
6. And exactly how are we gonna find this sustenance?
   那么我们怎样可以找到食物？
7. Thus he truly steeps himself in his literary lover and derives from these books sustenance for his soul.
   这么一来，他真的浸润在他的文学情人的怀抱中，而由这些书籍中获得他的灵魂的食粮。
8. This little one scarf, carrying forward the older generation of revolutionaries of our instruction, sustenance of the parents and teachers of our expectations.
   这小小的一方领巾，承载着老一辈革命家对我们的嘱托，寄托了家长和老师对我们的期望。
9. Its course are enough to give the great bird with itsimmense wings sufficient sustenance and progress.
   这过程足以给这种有特大翅膀的大鸟提供足够的支撑力和前进力了。
10. According to Hasna, sustainability is a process which tells of a development of all aspects of human life affecting sustenance.
    据Hasna，可持续性是一个过程，讲述了一个发展的各个方面影响到人类生命的寄托。
11. He has gone for a week without sustenance.
    他已经一星期未吃食物了。
12. Plants get nourishment from the soil. We derive our sustenance from the land.
    植物从土壤中吸取养料。我们从土地获取食物。
13. Motor ocular dominance Also now I have gained on him in the question of sustenance.
    运动性眼优势运动性眼优势再说，眼下在食物方面我也比它占优势。
14. Poetry places rightly the poet's spiritual sustenance in the exact description of the object, showing a high artistic level.
    诗歌在对客体的准确描绘中恰如其分地寄托了主体的精神质素，表现了很高的艺术水平。
15. His vanishing sum suggested that he would need sustenance.
    他那逐渐消失的钱提醒他，需要找点生计了。
16. This characterizes the Goddess as the source and sustenance of all things.
    这刻写了女神作为来源和所有东西依靠的特征。
17. Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls.
    精神是我们内心的一丛的火焰，是喂养我们灵魂的神秘食物。
18. I lay on the bed I suffer," the Bible "has become my only spiritual sustenance.
    躺在病榻上的我我苦不堪言，《圣经》便成为我唯一的精神寄托。
19. In rudderless despair and searching for ideological sustenance, he contemplated religion.
    在失去航向的绝望中，在寻求精神食粮的过程中，他想到了宗教。
20. If you are to survive without your symbiote, you require sustenance.
    如果你要没有共生体存活下去，你就必须要食物来维持。
21. Writing poems, calligraphy, painting and designing are his game and sustenance.
    一生清贫，诗书画及设计工作是我生命中的戏寄托。
22. There are plenty of things on this island we can use for sustenance.
    这个岛上有很多东西可以食用。
23. We derive our sustenance from the land.
    我们从土地获取食物。
24. Once he thought he was just as spiritual sustenance, but later found out is not the case.
    开始认为只是把他作为精神寄托，但后来发现情况并非如此。
25. Sufficient sustenance and progress.
    以足够的浮力和推力。
26. To find a spiritual sustenance, how to say it is also a good way.
    找一个心灵寄托，怎么说也是一个好办法吧。
27. But even then, his sister's loyal friends were irreplaceable, he says, providing both practical and emotional sustenance.
    但即便如此，他姐姐的忠实朋友们也是不可替代的，他说，他们提供了实际的和情感上的寄托。
28. We can not live without some sustenance from the biological point of view, we are heterotrophic aerobic type.
    我们的生活离不开一些寄托，从生物学的角度看，我们就是异养需氧型。
29. Look, I brought sustenance. Who's first?
    我带了食物来，谁先来？
30. You are my treasure hands, you are my future spiritual sustenance.
    你是我手中的宝，你是我未来的精神寄托。

noun

1. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
   1. they were in want of sustenance
   2. fishing was their main sustainment

   Synonym:    sustentationsustainmentmaintenanceupkeep

2. a source of materials to nourish the body

   Synonym:    nutrimentnourishmentnutritionalimentalimentationvictuals

3. the financial means whereby one lives
   1. each child was expected to pay for their keep
   2. he applied to the state for support
   3. he could no longer earn his own livelihood

   Synonym:    supportkeeplivelihoodlivingbread and butter