Maintenance
['meɪnt(ə)nəns;-tɪn-] or ['mentənəns]
解释:
(noun.) the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community; 'unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit'.
(noun.) means of maintenance of a family or group.
沙琳编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
(n.) That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.
(n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty.
伯纳黛特校对
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Support, vindication, justification, defence; preservation.[2]. Sustenance, food, victuals, provisions, BREAD, livelihood, subsistence.
编辑:沃伦
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Livelihood, defence, subsistence, means_of_support
整理:洛蒂
例句:
- If the guests chose to partake of what was served, he saw no objection; but it was served for the maintenance of his rank. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Such taxes, when destined for the maintenance of the state, have some advantages, which may serve in some measure to balance their inconveniency. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In those days the principal expense of the sovereign seems to have consisted in the maintenance of his own family and household. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The greater part of it will naturally be destined for the employment of industry, and not for the maintenance of idleness. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The cost of an acetylene generator is about $50 for a small house, and the cost of maintenance is not more than that of lamps. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The greater this surplus, the greater must likewise be the maintenance and employment of that class. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It is true that the country, from its rocky surface and unfertile soil, was extremely unfit for the maintenance of those animals. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- He appears to have enquired very carefully into this subject {See his scheme for the maintenance of the poor, in Burn's History of the Poor Laws. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The farmer makes his profit by keeping the labouring cattle, and by parting with their maintenance. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The maintenance of state mena geries no doubt had a similar influence on the study of the natural history of animals. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I read it in your eye; it is not of that description which promises the maintenance of an even tenor in life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- When destined for the maintenance of the church, they are attended with nothing but inconveniency. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
校对:梅勒妮