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

• Countries where the former mainstays of malaria treatment, such as chloroquine, are no longer effective are also moving forward on new therapies.
  过去采用诸如奎宁等主要疟疾治疗方法而目前不再有效的国家也正在采用新疗法。
• But while excess capacity at home will drive Chinese carmakers to export, analysts say that will not necessarily guarantee success in markets beyond their current mainstays of Latin America, the Middle East and Russia.
  但分析师们表示，尽管国内产能过剩将推动中国汽车制造商出口，但这并不一定能保证它们在拉美、中东和俄罗斯这些当前支柱市场以外的市场取得成功。
• Many mathematicians from universities benefited from the training and later became mainstays of various fields.
  来自高等院校的许多数学工作者受益匪浅，后来都成为各自领域的学术骨干。
• 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。
• It succeeded with popular features that have become mainstays of the web today: Web mail, news aggregation, fantasy sports and financial data – all of them simple and easy to access.
  雅虎广受欢迎的网站特色已成为当今网络的主流，用户能够简单便捷地获取包括电子邮件、各类新闻、时尚运动以及财经数据等方面的信息。
• In a country where fish is one of the economy's mainstays, the result was disaster.
  对于一个以渔业为主要经济支柱的国家，这样的结果是灾难性的。
• 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。
• All large or super huge enterprises in our country are state-owned business, and they are mainstays of national economy.
  我国的大型或特大型企业是国民经济的支柱企业。
• 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。