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。

• symptom
• syndrome
• synthesis
• synthetic
• system
• systematic
• systematical
• systematically
• t-rex
• t-shirt
• table
• tablet
• tabulate
• tack
• tackle
• tact
• tactics
• tag
• tahiti
• tail
• tailor
• take
• takeoff
• talbot
• tale