sustenance

英 [ˈsʌstənəns]

美 [ˈsʌstənəns]

n. 食物; 营养; 养料; 维持; 保持

BNC.18478 / COCA.14178

牛津词典

noun

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。
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。

N-UNCOUNT 食物;营养;养料
Sustenanceis 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。

noun

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
a source of materials to nourish the body
Synonym:nutrimentnourishmentnutritionalimentalimentationvictuals
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

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。
He has gone for a week without sustenance.
他已经一星期未吃食物了。
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。
Sufficient sustenance and progress.
以足够的浮力和推力。
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。
Look, I brought sustenance. Who's first?
我带了食物来，谁先来？
And exactly how are we gonna find this sustenance?
那么我们怎样可以找到食物？
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。
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。
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。