sustain

vt.
1. support,maintain,uphold 支持，维持，维护。
△Tw.4.2.139(125): “Your need to sustain；”i.e.to treat youas the old Vice treats the devil. 供给你的需要。
△Lr.1.4.357 (332): “If she sustain him and his hundredknights.”如果她还要维持他和他那一百名骑士。
△Lr.5.3.322(321):“Rule in this realm,and the gored state sus-tain.”统治疆土，维持这破碎的国家。
2. care for照顾。
△Lr.3.3.4:“charged me on pain ofperpetual displeasure neither to speak of him. entreatfor him,or any way sustain him.”责令我不准再提起他，为他求情，或是以任何方式照顾他，不然就罚我永远失去他们的恩宠。
3. suffer. undergo,endure,receive遭受，经受，忍受，接受。
△3H.VI.3.2.39:“To do them good I would sus-tain some harm.”只要对他们有好处，我愿意遭受一些损害。
△ H.VIII.3.2.3:“If you omit / The offer of thistime,I cannot promise / But that you shall sustainmoe (= more) new disgraces With these you bear al-ready.”如果你们放过现在这个机会，我可以预言你们除了已经遭受的耻辱之外，还要遭受更多新的耻辱。
△Tw.1.5.187(175): “let me sustain no scorn；” i.e.do not laugh atme. 别让我受到嘲笑。
～ vb. refl. have a place. find a place,hang拥有位置，找到位置，悬挂。
△Oth.5.2.258(259):“Behold,I have aweapon: / A better never did itself sustain / Upon asoldier's thigh.”看，我有一件武器；从来没有一个军人的腰间佩带过比这更好的武器。

sustain[səsˈtein]

v.支撑，维持，持续，遭受，持续
‖ sustain jack脚控延音插孔
sustain level衰减度
sustained combat持久战斗
sustained defense持久防御
sustained fault持续故障
sustained fire持续射击
sustained yield持续产量
sustaining force持续力
sustaining program非营业性的独立节目
sustainability n. 可持续性
sustainable adj. sustainable competitive advantage可持续的竞争优势
sustainable development可持续发展
sustainable growth持续增长
sustainable income持续性收入
sustainable use可持续利用
sustainer n.支持者，维持者
sustainment n.