The brain sustains the elementary activities of animal survival such as respiration, adequate rest and a beating heart.

大脑维持着动物生存的基本活动，如呼吸、充足的休息和心跳。

Understanding this cycle is important, not only because it sustains life on Earth, but also because it is bound up with the rate of global warming.

理解这种循环很重要，不仅因为碳循环维持地球上的生命，而且因为它对于全球变暖的速度有密切关系。

Some scholars conclude that a government with finite resources should simply stop paying for medical care that sustains life beyond a certain age—say 83 or so.

一些学者得出结论，资源有限的政府应该停止为超过一定年龄的人（比如83岁左右）支付医疗费用。

Fairness sustains faith in the system.

公平能够保持人们对这个体系的信任。

The Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground.

耶和华扶持谦卑人，将恶人倾覆于地。

I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.

我躺下睡觉。我醒着。

These sources of strength are also in the faith that sustains so many of us.

我们中很多人的信仰同样也是力量的源泉，这支撑了我们去面对这巨大的苦难。

The framework of mutual respect sustains our cultural cooperation today.

互相尊重的精神是我们今天文化合作的基础。

Controls implementation that enables and sustains an oversight capability.

控制维持监督能力的执行。

A man's spirit sustains him in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?

人有疾病，心能忍耐；心灵忧伤，谁能承当呢？

This richness of life and the harmony that sustains it should give us pause.

如此丰富的生命，和如此恒久的和谐，让我们踌躇顾虑。

That was worrying because the collective faith that sustains the NPT is easily frayed.

这种局面令人担忧，因为支撑着《核不扩散条约》的集体信念很容易瓦解。

Employment must be central. It not only sustains demand, but supports human dignity.

我们必须将就业置于中心地位，因为它不仅维持着需求，也维持着人的尊严。

But does the food that sustains half of humanity also increase the risk of cancer for some?

但是支撑世界上一半人口的主食会存在增加患癌症风险的问题吗？

Yet we keep reaching, and it's the journey that sustains us, not our final destination.

但我们仍旧不懈追求，维系着追逐热情的是这场人生之旅，而不是旅途的终点。

On top of the Himalaya, glaciers whose meltwater sustains vast populations are dwindling.

一直以来喜马拉雅山山顶冰川融化的水维系了很多国家人很多人的生命，但是冰川数量正在减少。

A shrinking lake will not only impact on people living around it, but also all the lives it sustains.

减少的水域面积不只影响周围的居民，而且影响它所维持的生命。

Now we are back to talking about the people who created this crisis and the system that sustains them.

时过境迁，现在人们又开始谈论那些人，就是那些人在体系制度的庇护下制造了危机。

The rivers drain into the Balkhash lake, which sustains the livelihood of more than two million Kazakhs.

两条河流汇入巴尔喀什湖，维系着两百多万哈萨克人的生活。

Thus it is local currency, not foreign "speculative money" that both causes and sustains local asset prices.

所以，真正推高资产价格并使之居高不下的元凶是本国货币，而不是外国的“投机性货币”。

The reserve sustains 200 buffalo and could supportmore if the tribal council can buy or lease additional acreage.

当前生活在这个保护区的野牛共有200头，如果部落理事会能够购买或者租赁额外的土地，这里的野牛数量还会增加。

"The Sierra is the heart of the world. It functions the same way as our own heart does - it sustains the organism," he says.

“塞拉(山)是世界的心脏，它像我们自己的心脏一样工作-它维持着机体的功能，”他说。

The near view gives the region its charm; the distant one sustains it. The oil industry and shipbuilding both thrive along the coast.

近处的风景固然迷人，远处的景象才是背后的动力，那就是沿河两岸蓬勃发展的石油业和造船工业。

But Redacted pretty successfully sustains a dual level of hysteria (in its content) and disinterest (in its film-long framing devices).

影片的剧本非常成功地在歇斯底里(内容上)和平缓上(影片长镜头的运用)上都取得了成功。

Understanding this cycle is important, both because it sustains life on Earth and because it is bound up with the rate of global warming.

理解这种循环很重要，不仅因为碳循环维持地球上的生命，而且因为它对于全球变暖的速度有密切关系。

But what sustains you in between is having something that interests you both enough that you can share it, talk about it, do it together.

但是能让你们地久天长的，是你们都感兴趣并因此可以分享，谈论，一块儿去做的那些东西。

The surface of the submerged skyscraper sustains a smallforest, while the lower levels contain spaces for its inhabitants tolive and work.

这座水下摩天大楼的表层供养着一片小森林，其下层空间供居民生活和工作。

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

你在哪里受的教育，学的什么以及与谁为师我不感兴趣。

John Baross of the University of Washington, who is a contributor to the census, said microscopic life in the oceans sustains 90 per cent of life.

致力于该普查项目的华盛顿大学的John Baross，说微观生物构成了海洋生命中的90%。