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

• 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。
• The extension set is one of the three mainstays of extension theory.
  可拓集合是可拓论的三大支柱之一。
• Sugarcane and sugar product is one of the economic mainstays in Guangxi.
  甘蔗糖业是广西的重要经济支柱之一，甘蔗生物固氮及其应用的研究对于在甘蔗生产中节约氮肥成本、减少环境污染具有非常重要的意义。
• Family businesses are mainstays of German and Italian industry.
  家族企业是德国和意大利工业的中流砥柱。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In Central America, remittances have long eclipsed traditional agricultural mainstays such as coffee and bananas.
  在中美洲，海外汇款收入很早之前就超过了咖啡、香蕉等传统的农业支柱产业。
• 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。
• 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。