| 词汇 | maintaining |
| 释义 | maintaining present participle ofmaintain maintain verb[ T ] uk /meɪnˈteɪn/ us /meɪnˈteɪn/ maintainverb[T] (CONTINUE TO HAVE)B2 to continue to have; to keep in existence, or not allow to become less: 维持;保持 The army has been brought in to maintain order in the region.军队已被调来维持这一地区的秩序。 We have standards to maintain.我们要坚持原则。 Despite living in different countries, the two families have maintained close links.尽管住在不同的国家，两个家庭仍保持着紧密联系。 The film has maintained its position as the critics' favourite for another year.这部电影再度被评论家评为年度最佳影片。 With an election approaching, the prime minister is keen to maintain his popularity. The Queen has maintained political neutrality throughout her reign.女王在位期间，政治上一直保持中立。 Security during the president's visit must be maintained at all costs.要不惜一切代价确保总统在访问期间的安全。 Several of the teachers were quite unable to maintain discipline. The United Nations has maintained a presence in the region for some time.联合国派部队在该地区驻扎已有一段时间。 Keeping and storing things appropriate aside bank bogart capacitance capture cling dump keep (something/someone) back kept lay lay something aside lay something down lay something in stash stockpile stockpiling storage store trap maintainverb[T] (KEEP IN GOOD CONDITION)B2 to keep a road, machine, building, etc. in good condition: 维修；养护；保养 A large house costs a lot to maintain.保养一座大房子花费很高。 The roads in the town have been very poorly maintained.城镇的道路保养得很差。 Preserving and saving aspic co-processing conserve deliverer documentalist documentarily lifeguard reclaim reprieve rescue rescuer reusable rewild saviour self-sustaining sustain sustainedly unadopted unappropriated unassigned maintainverb[T] (EXPRESS)C2 to express firmly your belief that something is true: 坚称;断言 Throughout his prison sentence, Dunn has always maintained his innocence.邓恩在监狱服刑期间一直坚称自己是无辜的。 [ + that ]He maintains that he has never seen the woman before.他坚称以前从未见过那位妇女。 to say something sayWhen I say your name, raise your hand. utterShe barely uttered a word all morning. they sayThey say the house is haunted. it is saidIt is said that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. stateUnion members stated that they were unhappy with the proposal. remarkHe remarked that she was looking thin. according to the newspapers, records, etc. according toAccording to reports, the ceasefire is holding. as stated by/inAs stated by medical experts, these products are totally safe when used correctly. as maintained byThere is no reason to change your diet, as maintained by some lifestyle experts. as claimed bySo-called superfoods will not make you live longer, as claimed by some advertising. He maintains that he was nowhere near the house. They still maintain their innocence. He firmly maintains that he was there at the time. They maintain that their story is true. The management maintain they did everything they could to avoid the disaster. Assertions & asserting affirm affirmation airing assert assert your right assertion beg emphatic gaslight hate speech lay lay something on the lineidiom maintain pretend put your foot downidiom self-affirmation send send a messageidiom set yourself up as something shout/proclaim something from the rooftopsidiom maintainverb[T] (PROVIDE)to provide someone with food and whatever is necessary for them to live on: 供养;抚养;赡养 They barely earn enough to maintain themselves and their four children.他们赚的钱勉强够养活自己和4个孩子。 Giving, providing and supplying accommodate accommodate someone with something accord administer administration afford arm someone with something dish hand off hand something around hand something back hand something down hand something in invest outfit re-equipment reassign reassignment rebid regift Examples of maintainingmaintaining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is interesting to note that the concept of natural selection as the sole force in maintaining polymorphisms went virtually unquestioned 15 years ago. Despite its prevalence, many young two-year-olds are uncertain about their mapping preference and thus not very committed to maintaining it. Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is a perpetual battle, and turnover within the population is constant. Similarly, difficulties in maintaining attention to the task cannot account for the differences in success of inhibition. At the same time he emphasised the necessity of maintaining historical continuity as an ontological basis for society and as a creative source for architecture. The goals of maintaining independence and delaying functional decline in long-term care are poorly understood and inadequately researched. Problems exist not only with maintaining currency of information with respect to performance standards, but also in communicating connection to contemporar y ideas. This was unplanned and came in response to a growing problem of maintaining the standards of the critical 'experiential learning' components of the programme. Maintaining dual residences (with the help of relatives and friends) enables the group to maximise their social and family contacts and quality of life. The linear equality constraints can be readily used to reduce the total number of differential equations, while maintaining a set of ordinary differential equations. Thanks are due to all the nurses for maintaining the study and assisting the families involved throughout the study. Maintaining the balance between these two extremes is one of the most challenging tasks for a designer of controllers for local musical networks. These data no not suggest the exchange of vessels for the purpose of constructing and maintaining alliances. These hakims leaned on the court for maintaining their monopoly over medical knowledge. Thus, in a remarkable example of convergent evolution, different organisms have evolved different strategies for maintaining superhelical homeostasis commensurate with their particular physiologies. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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