mainstay
n. 支柱,柱石; 骨干,中流砥柱; 主要的依靠; 主桅支索
If you describe something as the mainstay of a particular thing, you mean that it is the most basic part of it.
Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet...
鱼和米是该国的主要食品。
This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labor relations in this country.
这一集体谈判原则已经成为该国劳动关系的重要基础。
1. a prominent supporter;
2. a central cohesive source of support and stability;
3. the forestay that braces the mainmast
Symptomatic treatment with dopaminergic and anticholinergic medications remains the mainstay at the present time.
现阶段的处置以药物的症状治疗为主.
They are the mainstay of our work today, and we cannot do without them.
他们是我们现在工作的很重要的基础, 没有他们不行.
Agriculture is still the mainstay of the country's economy.
农业仍然是这个国家经济的主要支柱.
State enterprises are the mainstay of the national economy of our country.
国有企业是我国国民经济的支柱.
Pillar industries in the city's economy to industry and agriculture as the mainstay.
全市经济支柱产业以工业和农业为主体.