| 释义 |
hold the ringMonitor a dispute or conflict without becoming involved in it: the judge is there to hold the ring impartially and to direct the jury on the law...- British officials, some with little or no experience of the Middle East, came to regard themselves as umpires holding the ring between Arab and Jew.
- When an army spokesman was asked on the radio whether our forces could go on holding the ring, he refused to comment.
- It could splinter into civil war and destabilise the whole region if the interim government, US forces and United Nations fail to hold the ring among factions struggling for power.
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