sustenance
n. 食物,营养,养料
Sustenance is food or drink which a person, animal, or plant needs to remain alive and healthy.
The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
国家提供基本的日常食物供应,但除此之外就没什么了。
1. a source of materials to nourish the body
2. the financial means whereby one lives;
3. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence;
We derive our sustenance from the land.
我们从土地获取食物.
Great satire needs the sustenance of great fable.
伟大的讽刺作品需要伟大的怪异故事来滋养它.
Say: " Who gives you sustenance, from the heavens and the earth? "
你说: “ 谁从天上和地下供给你们? ”
As it is, you can get the same nutritional sustenance in slice of whole grain bread.
如果这样, 啤酒的营养和一片全麦面包是一样的.
They wanted to see him, because they wanted to draw a certain sustenance from his strength.
他们想见到他, 因为他们想从他的实力里吸取某种养料.