mainstay

名词支柱，柱石; 骨干，中流砥柱; 主要的依靠; 主桅支索

1. 主桅前支索：mainstationpeg 主测站标桩 | mainstay 主桅前支索 | mainstay 主要支持 主支索 大桅牵条

2. 中流砥柱：mainspring 主发条 | mainstay 中流砥柱 | mainstayanconbracingpuncheonshoringstanchionunderpinning 支柱

3. 支柱,主体：chronic diseases慢性病 | mainstay 支柱,主体 | public health policies公共健康政策

1. 支柱;中坚
    If you describe something as the mainstay of a particular thing, you mean that it is the most basic part of it.

    e.g. Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet...
           鱼和米是该国的主要食品。
    e.g. 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. The parents of many of today's children in China can recall times when cabbage formed the mainstay of their winter diet.

2. Genetically engineered mice containing human DNA are already a mainstay of research into new drugs for diseases such as cancer.

3. The real estate industry is already a mainstay of the city's economy.

4. Classically modeled after Cheers, the mainstay of the Americana dcor was the automobile license plate collection adorning the walls.

5. mainstay

5. Uzbekistan is mainly an agricultural country, with cotton processing as the mainstay.

6. Rather, it focuses on an area that was the mainstay of Malaysia's early economic development.

7. Coal remains the mainstay of China's energy supply, and its raw coal output has ranked first in the world for years.

8. The 118 monitoring stations under the administration serve as the mainstay of China's bird flue monitoring system.

9. He said that the EDC may have an important role to play in maintaining the city's leading advantages of its mainstay industries in the region.

10. Arguments about cream and lotion have been a mainstay in our relationship for the past four years.

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