mainstays

英 [ˈmeɪnsteɪz]

美 [ˈmeɪnˌsteɪz]

n.  支柱; 中流砥柱
mainstay的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 支柱;中坚
  If you describe something asthe mainstay ofa particular thing, you mean that it is the most basic part of it.
  1. Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet...
     鱼和米是该国的主要食品。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Self-confidence and sele-reliance are the mainstays of a strong character.
  自信和自立是坚强品格的支柱。
• The Compton brothers were mainstays of the Arsenal side in the1940s.
  坎普顿兄弟是20世纪40年代阿森纳的支柱。
• Construction industry is one of the mainstays of national economy. The rapid development of construction industry brought well opportunity for the development of building waterproofing materials.
  建筑业是中国国民经济建设的支柱产业之一，建筑业的蓬勃发展为建筑防水材料行业的发展带来了良好的机遇。
• The Research on How Behavior Mainstays 'Partiality Influences Rural Financial Supply and Demand
  行为主体偏好对农村金融供求影响研究
• These were the mainstays of her life.
  这些就是她生活中主要寄托。
• Cars promise far more than they deliver, both as consumer products and as mainstays of manufacturing economies.
  汽车向人们许诺的好处，远超其实际功用，不管是作为消费者产品，还是作为制造业经济体的支柱。
• However the premier edition added Google Docs& Spreadsheets, a significant edition considering that word processing and spreadsheets are mainstays of Microsoft Office.
  然而在premier版中，还添加了Google文件，这是一个很重要的添加，因为字处理和工作表也是微软Office的支柱。
• In this paper, the concept and characteristics of the virtual corporation are introduced, then the technological support from the information flow and the material flow which are the two mainstays of the virtual corporation is discussed.
  文章首先介绍了虚拟企业的概念和特征，然后进一步论述了虚拟企业的两大支柱信息流和物流的技术支持。
• The GATT is one of the three economic mainstays of the world.
  《关税与贸易总协定》是世界三大经济支柱之一。
• When the researchers compared the men's scans, they noticed that gentle stroking caused a drop in natural opioids in brain areas called the ventral striatum and the anterior cingulate cortex, which are mainstays of the brain's reward circuitry.
  当研究人员对比两次扫描结果后发现，轻柔的抚摸导致大脑内部腹侧纹状体与前扣带脑皮质分泌自然阿片类物质，而二者正是大脑奖励回路机制的重要区域。