Sustainability

Definition

sustain /sǝ'steÇn/ v ၁။ (က) အက်ဳိးျပဳသည္။ အားေပးသည္။ အားတက္ေစသည္။ အားျဖည့္သည္။ not enough oxygen to sustain life. ❍ Only the hope that the rescuers were getting nearer sustained the trapped miners (ie kept them cheerful and enabled them to stay alive). ❍ enjoy a sustaining breakfast (ie of food that gives strength). (ခ) ဆြဲထားႏိုင္သည္။ ဆြဲေဆာင္ႏိုင္သည္။ အားတင္း ထား သည္။ တည္တံ့ေစသည္။ sustain a note (ie continue to play or sing it without interruption) ❍ make a sustained effort to finish off the work ❍ The clapping was sustained for several minutes. ❍ The author is to sustain his argument throughout the chapter. ၂။ ( fml ) ဒုကၡေတြ႕ႀကံဳရသည္။ ခံစားရသည္။ sustain a defeat/ a loss ❍ He sustained severe injuries to the head. ၃။ ( law ) လက္ခံသည္။ အတည္ျပဳသည္။ The court sustained his claim that the contract was illegal. ❍ Objection sustained! ၄။ ( fml ) ခံႏိုင္စြမ္းရိွသည္။ ခံႏိုင္သည္။ ခံေဆာင္ ထားသည္။ The ice will not sustain your weight. ❏ sustainable /-ǝbl/ adj ထိန္းထားႏိုင္ေသာ။ ခံႏိုင္ေသာ။ sustainable economic growth ❍ environmentally sustainable policies (ie that do not harm the environment). sustainability /sǝsteÇnǝ'bÇlǝti/ n [U]

Examples

1. Only two of the planets could sustain life.
2. Analysts believe present economic growth can be sustained without inflation.
3. A cup of coffee isn’t enough to sustain you until lunchtime.
4. Throughout the trial he was sustained by the support of his family.
5. One of the officers sustained minor injuries in the fire.
6. Both sides sustained heavy losses in the war.