mainstay

/meyn-stey/US // ˈmeɪnˌsteɪ //UK // (ˈmeɪnˌsteɪ) //

中流砥柱,中坚力量,主流,主干

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Nautical. the stay that secures the mainmast forward.
- : a person or thing that acts as a chief support or part: Coffee is the mainstay of the country's economy.

nounchief support

Forms: mainstays

Synonyms

Helium use started in 1927 and has been a mainstay of the parade since, with the exception of the year 1958, when a global helium shortage kept the balloons closer to earth.
Founded by Hong Kong immigrant Patrick Lo in 1996, Netgear set up shop in San Jose, California, and has been a mainstay of networking hardware since the dawn of the internet.
Bread at the readyWarm, crusty, butter-melting bread that comes straight from the oven—or at least out of a professional warmer—is a mainstay in countless eateries.
Taking on Big Tech has been a mainstay in the national conversation ever since the 2016 Presidential election, but this is the first antitrust action taken against Google.
They now share the blocks with mainstays such as Floriana and JR.
Eventually, DeCrow and Seidenberg filed suit against the East Village mainstay.
De Robertis, an East Village mainstay, closes tomorrow—a moment for nostalgia, but also pragmatism.
Conceptually, the “Angel of Death” was a cultural mainstay in continental Europe and the British Isles by the late Middle Ages.
Foreign fighters are a mainstay of the rebellion against Assad.
The one problem with Braley's remark is that it happened to reflect on a fellow Iowan who is a mainstay of Hawkeye State politics.
It is with profound regret that we cannot point to Harwood as a football hero or the of the crew.

/meyn-stey/US // ˈmeɪnˌsteɪ //UK // (ˈmeɪnˌsteɪ) //

中流砥柱,中坚力量,主流,主干

n.名词 noun

1
- : Nautical. the stay that secures the mainmast forward.
- : a person or thing that acts as a chief support or part: Coffee is the mainstay of the country's economy.

nounchief support

Forms: mainstays

Synonyms

Helium use started in 1927 and has been a mainstay of the parade since, with the exception of the year 1958, when a global helium shortage kept the balloons closer to earth.
Founded by Hong Kong immigrant Patrick Lo in 1996, Netgear set up shop in San Jose, California, and has been a mainstay of networking hardware since the dawn of the internet.
Bread at the readyWarm, crusty, butter-melting bread that comes straight from the oven—or at least out of a professional warmer—is a mainstay in countless eateries.
Taking on Big Tech has been a mainstay in the national conversation ever since the 2016 Presidential election, but this is the first antitrust action taken against Google.
They now share the blocks with mainstays such as Floriana and JR.
Eventually, DeCrow and Seidenberg filed suit against the East Village mainstay.
De Robertis, an East Village mainstay, closes tomorrow—a moment for nostalgia, but also pragmatism.
Conceptually, the “Angel of Death” was a cultural mainstay in continental Europe and the British Isles by the late Middle Ages.
Foreign fighters are a mainstay of the rebellion against Assad.
The one problem with Braley's remark is that it happened to reflect on a fellow Iowan who is a mainstay of Hawkeye State politics.
It is with profound regret that we cannot point to Harwood as a football hero or the of the crew.