Word of the Day：November 26, 2022

sustain

支持；支撑；遭受；证实

verb /suh-STAYN/[səˈsteɪn]

What It Means

Sustain means "to provide what is needed for something or someone to exist or continue; to nourish." It can also mean "to hold up the weight of," "to suffer or endure," or "to confirm or prove." In legal contexts, to sustain something is to decide or state that it is proper, legal, or fair.

Sustain指为某物的存在或某人的继续提供所需的“滋养物”。 它也表示“承受重量”、“承受或忍受”或“确认或证明”。 法律中“ to sustain something ”指决定它是适当的、合法的或公平的。

SUSTAIN in Context

"'Besides being a vast reservoir of biodiversity, the deep ocean provides us with benefits ranging from carbon sequestration, to medicine, to food chains that sustain billions of people,' said [Diva] Amon, who is a marine biologist and director and founder of SpeSeas." — Targeted News Service (Honolulu, Hawaii), 11 Mar. 2022

“‘深海不仅是巨大的生物多样性储藏库，还为我们提供了从碳封存、药物到维持数十亿人生存的食物链等诸多好处，’[Diva] Amon 说，他是一位海洋生物学家、主任和创始人 SpeSeas 的。”

Hope sustained us during that difficult time.

在那个困难时期，希望支撑着我们。

Did You Know?

The word sustain is both handy and hardy. Its use has been sustained since the days of Middle English (its ultimate source is Latin sus-, meaning "up," plus tenēre, meaning "to hold") by its utility across a variety of consequential subjects, from environmental protections to legal proceedings to medical reports. The word is so prevalent and so varied in its application, in fact, that it enjoys sustained high ranking as one of our top lookups—evidence of our readers’ sustained commitment to, well, sustaining themselves with information about words.

​“The word sustain is both handy and hardy。自中古英语时代以来，（其最终来源于表示“向上”的拉丁语 sus-，加上意为“up”的tenēre，），它一直持续使用在环境保护到法律诉讼，以及医疗报告等方面。 事实上，它的应用普遍并且多种多样，在我们的热门检索中享有持续的高排名——证明我们关注着读者们持续关注的单词的信息。​

Quiz

Unscramble the letters to reveal a term commonly contrasted with sustain in legal contexts: UORVLEER.

overrule