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Перевод: sustenance

[существительное]
средства к существованию; поддержание; поддержка ; питание; пища ; питательность

Тезаурус:

1. In some deserts, as in Australia, the dominant predators are reptiles - snakes and lizards, like the mighty goanna - which can live out periods of hardship with very little sustenance.
2. To sustain life we eat, and the cost of that sustenance is death further down the food chain.
3. Equally, the stress on the negative influence of Irish catholicism is not meant to imply a negation of its positive aspects: its sustenance of the people during long years of oppression, the dedication of its clergy and religious orders, both in education and in welfare, not to mention the contribution of its missionaries to the fight for social justice in third-world countries.
4. Farming for a livelihood demands manipulation of the life-processes in the soil, crops, and animals in such a way as to yield continuous sustenance or profit without depleting capital.
5. Though wholewheat pastry in my opinion more suited as building material than sustenance.
6. Also, thousands of migrating birds from Canada, Iceland and Russia sought sustenance there on the way south, Ms McCloy said.
7. Here colourless villages and mud houses, seemingly built at random, scraped a tired sustenance from the soil and the scrappy flocks of sheep and isolated, tethered cattle.
8. The rough land is altogether too harsh and unyielding, giving sustenance only to sheep, and to the conifers high on the flanks of East Kielder Moor and Grey Mares Knowe, immense sweeps of hillside to right and left of the valley.
9. On these surfaces of glacial deposits, wind blown sand, peat and exposed bedrock successive waves of settlement have cleared, burned, grazed and cultivated, while others have turned to the seas for sustenance.
10. He had not made up his mind what to say to him, so spent time establishing a position in the Reading Room, under the high dome, which, however high, held, he felt, insufficient oxygen for all the diligent readers, so that they lay somnolent like flames dying in Humphry Davy's bell-jar as their sustenance was consumed.
11. "Meat and animal-based foods were put forward as the most nutritious form of sustenance and this propaganda changed the shape of generations.
12. After many years and three gardens, the optimism is going well; I still battle with my impatience, but I am finally coming to grips with giving the essentials of sustenance to the garden.
13. Indeed, it depended on its buying-power for sustenance, for by 1949 the life of a "hit" record was about three months, with a market profile of a third under 21-years-old and a further 45 per cent between 21 and 35; leaving only one-fifth of purchasers over 35 (many of whom bought for the younger generation in any case).