讓狀態持續下去
把「撐住」用在時間上：不讓一個水準、一段成長、一種關注隨時間掉下來。
sustain (keep going) · verb · B2
To make something continue for a long time, without letting it become weaker or smaller.
維持；持續
核心畫面
One way to hold it: holding something up from underneath so it does not drop. A pillar holds the roof; food holds the body going; hope holds a person through a hard year; steady effort holds a level from sliding back. One odd-looking use goes the other way — to sustain an injury is to be on the receiving end of it, taking the weight of what hit you.
可以想成從下面把東西撐住，不讓它掉下來：柱子撐著屋頂、食物撐著身體、希望撐著一個人度過難熬的一年、持續的努力撐著水準…更多收起
可以想成從下面把東西撐住，不讓它掉下來：柱子撐著屋頂、食物撐著身體、希望撐著一個人度過難熬的一年、持續的努力撐著水準不往下滑。其中有一個用法方向相反——sustain an injury 是「承受」到了傷害，你是接下這一擊的那一方。From the picture
承受下來
同樣是「接住重量」，但這次接到的是壞事：傷害落到你身上，由你承受。
sustain (suffer injury) · verb · B2
(Formal) to experience something bad, such as an injury or damage.
遭受（傷害、損害）
認定成立
把「撐住不讓它倒」用在主張上：這個說法或裁定站得住腳，於是被支持下來。
sustain (uphold as valid) · verb · C1
(Formal) to show that an argument, claim, or decision is true or fair, especially by giving evidence; if a judge sustains an objection or decision, they officially agree it is valid.
（正式）證實成立；（法官）裁定有效
Also in this word
sustain (hold weight) · verb · B2
To hold the weight of something without breaking or falling down.
支撐（重量）
sustain (keep alive) · verb · B2
If food or drink sustains you, it gives you enough energy or strength to stay alive or keep going.
維持（生命、體力）
sustain (give strength) · verb · C1
To give someone the strength, hope, or comfort they need to keep going through a difficult situation.
支撐（精神上）；給予力量
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sustainverb/səˈsteɪn/
- 1
To maintain, or keep in existence.
- The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.
- The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces.
- 2
To provide for or nourish.
- provisions to sustain an army
- Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
- 3
To encourage or sanction (something).
- 4
To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
- The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.
- […] if you omit The offer of this time, I cannot promise But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces, With these you bear already.
- 5
To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
- to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
- After the vote is taken, the Chairman states that the decision of the Chair is sustained, or reversed, as the case may be.
- 6
lawTo allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
- 7
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
- A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
- 8
To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
- When I desir’d their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the use of mine own house, charg’d me on pain of perpetual displeasure neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.
- His Sons, who seek the Tyrant to sustain, And long for Arbitrary Lords again,
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
entertainmentlifestylemusicTo be a long-lasting sound.
- I like how long that drum sustains.
sustainnoun/səˈsteɪn/
- 1
entertainmentlifestylemusicA mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
- To call this music bland is to ignore the down-the-drain vocal fade-aways, the extended sax sustains […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。