及物動詞:保持、維持…的生命、供養、遭受、支持(情感上)
常見搭配詞:
- sustain somebody’s interest
維持某人的興趣 - sustain somebody
(物質上或精神上去)支持某人(正式用法) - sustain an animal / a plant
維持動物或植物的生命(正式用法) - sustain somebody’s weight / sustain the weight of something
支撐某人 / 某物的重量(正式用法) - sustain (serious) injuries / damage / losses
受傷(嚴重) / 受到破壞 / 遭受虧損(正式用法) - be sustained by something
為某事物所支撐
例句:
- It is hard to sustain the child’s interest.
要維持那個孩子的興緻很難 - The man gave the victim barely enough food to sustain her.
那個男人只給受害人勉強能活下來的食物(幾乎不給什麼食物) - The animals there have sufficient food to sustain life.
那裡的動物有充沛的食物來維持生活 - Almost every building in this area has sustained some damage.
在這個區域裡,幾乎每棟建築物都遭受到一些損害 - Our company has sustained heavy financial losses in the past three years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
因為新冠疫情,我們的公司這三年來,遭受到嚴重虧損 - The love of her family sustained her through the hardship.
家人的愛支撐她度過難關 - He was sustained by the thought of seeing his son again.
想再見兒子一面的意念支撐著他(活下去) - I sustained serious injuries in the accident last year.
去年我出了車禍,身體多處受傷 - The wooden floor cannot sustain the weight of a grand piano.
這木製的地面無法承受平台式鋼琴的重量 - New data sustained his theory.
新的數據證明了他的理論
同義詞:
- undergo 經受 vt. 強調被迫經受不愉快的事、苦難或變化
- experience 經歷、遭受 vt. 生活中實際經歷的過程
- suffer 受苦 vi. 遭受 vt. 可以是身體或精神上的苦難,也可以指某人或群體遭受利益上的損失
- support 支持 vt. 藉由基礎或基座來承受某物的壓力或重量,使它不會倒下,意涵受得住艱難困苦,不屈服
- maintain 維持、保持 vt. 保持某種狀態或給予所需,以防力量、價值等有所損失
衍生字:
- sustainability 永續性 n.
- sustainable 可持續的、能長期保持的 adj.
- sustainably 可持續地、可持續地 adv.
- sustained 持續的、堅定的 adj.
- sustenance 食物、營養、支持 n.