mainstay
mainstay 英 [ˈmeɪnsteɪ] 美 [ˈmenˌste]
n. 支柱；中流砥柱；主要的依靠；主桅支索
名词复数:mainstays
- A mainstay is something that acts as a source of support for a community. If your hometown's economy depends on tourists visiting every summer, you could say that tourism is the mainstay of your town.
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- n. 支柱；中流砥柱；主要的依靠；主桅支索
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1. In fact, it is the mainstay of many Agile development methods.
事实上，这是许多敏捷开发方法的支柱。
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2. When he took over in 2005, the company was struggling to cope with the decline of photographic film, its mainstay for more than a century.
当他2005年接管时，公司正在照相底片走下坡路中挣扎，这一业务是公司一个多世纪以来的支柱。
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3. The program, known as H-1B, has been a mainstay of places such as Silicon Valley and Wall Street, where many companies have come to depend on computer programmers from India or engineers from China.
这个名为“H-1B”的项目，一直以来就是硅谷和华尔街等地区的支柱。 在这些地方，很多公司已经对来自印度的程序员或来自中国的工程师形成依赖。
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