Maintain
[meɪn'teɪn;mən'teɪn] or [men'ten]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.
(v. t.) To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.
(v. t.) To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.
(v. t.) To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.
(v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.
安德烈整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Sustain, support, preserve, uphold, keep.[2]. Defend, vindicate, assert, justify.[3]. Continue, keep up, carry on.[4]. Provide food for, supply with means of living.
v. n. Affirm, aver, allege, say, contend, hold the opinion, hazard the opinion.
校對:史蒂文
同義詞及反義詞：
[See SUPPORT]
彻姬塔編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to keep in any state: to keep possession of: to preserve from capture or loss: to carry on: to keep up: to support: to make good: to support by argument: to affirm: to defend.—v.i. to affirm as a position: to assert.—adj. Maintain′able that can be supported or defended.—ns. Maintain′er one who maintains; Main′tenance the act of maintaining supporting or defending: continuance: the means of support: defence protection: (law) an interference in a lawsuit &c. in favour of one of the parties by one who has no right or interest.—Cap of maintenance a cap of dignity borne by or before nobles and other persons of rank.
錄入:尼科尔
例句/造句/用法:
- And the lips that shall refuse to pledge me to his well-earned fame, I term false and dishonoured, and will so maintain them with my life. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Hence it was necessary to maintain a constant vigilance to defeat the insidious attacks of carping critics and others who would attempt to injure the Edison system by misleading statements. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I have heard people maintain that: it makes no difference whether women want the ballot, or are fit for it, or can do any good with it,--this country is a democracy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- With all deference to you, he said, and with all deference to your legal adviser, I maintain the opinion which I expressed just now. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Not much argument was needed to maintain the truth of a theory which to his own contemporaries seemed so natural and congenial. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Yet no one would seriously maintain that the West is more progressive because it has progressive laws. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It is called a siphon recorder because the record is made by a little glass siphon down which a flow of ink is maintained like a fountain pen. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- In such cases their internal freedom was maintained by a royal or imperial charter. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He said he had entreated her to favour him by maintaining her privilege of fixing the time for the marriage at her own will and pleasure. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- How to remove the heated, vitiated air and to supply fresh air while maintaining the same uniform temperature is a problem of long standing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But it is not selfless--it is a maintaining of the self in mystic balance and integrity--like a star balanced with another star. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Whatever expense Great Britain has hitherto laid out in maintaining this dependency, has really been laid out in order to support this monopoly. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In the one way, besides, this expense maintains productive, in the other unproductive hands. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- But the whole produce of the land undoubtedly belongs to him, who can dispose of the labour and service of all those whom it maintains. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Land, however improved, will yield no revenue without a circulating capital, which maintains the labourers who cultivate and collect its produce. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The labour of menial servants does not continue the existence of the fund which maintains and employs them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Besides this, the National Phonograph Company maintains a special staff for carrying on the business with foreign countries. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Still he maintains the true attitude of moral action. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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