sustenance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that provides support or nourishment. countable,uncountable
    — More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

词形变化

sustenances plural

词源

From Middle English sustenaunce, from Old French sustenance, from sustenir with the suffix -ance, from Vulgar Latin *sustenire, from Latin sustinere. Compare also Late Latin sustinentia. Equivalent to sustain + -ance.
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