| 单词 | maintain |
| 释义 | maintain (once / 67 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4v Maintain means to keep the same––keep steady, keep up, or keep going. Sure, you can ride your bike super fast on a flat surface, but it can be hard to maintain that speed, or keep the same speed, going up a hill. When you maintain a strict study schedule, you stick to it. When you maintain your car in good working order, you take good care of it. If you maintain records of your business activity, it means you make notes of your sales and expenses. If a teacher maintains order in the classroom, she never lets disruptions get out of hand. If you maintain your family, you keep them in food, shelter and clothing. If you maintain that eating animals is cruel, you keep that position. WORD FAMILYmaintain: maintainable, maintained, maintainer, maintaining, maintains, maintenance+/maintainer: maintainers/maintenance: maintenances USAGE EXAMPLES"Our mindset is, if you're doing business here in Indonesia, the spirit is to maintain stability. Don't create unnecessary volatility to create business," he added. Reuters(Jan 03, 2017) Commonly called “secondary hearts,” these muscles pump blood back to our heart, allowing us to maintain our normal rate of metabolic activity during sedentary activities. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) “Helping them maintain their body image is a huge part of treatment.” Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) 1 1v keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean" Syn|Hypo hold, keep pressurise, pressurize maintain a certain pressure bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, upholdkeep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last hold overkeep in a position or state from an earlier period of time conservekeep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change preservekeep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing distancekeep at a distance housekeepmaintain a household; take care of all business related to a household re-start, restart, resumetake up or begin anew hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere, persistbe persistent, refuse to stop perpetuatecause to continue or prevail keep up, prolong, sustainlengthen or extend in duration or space mummifypreserve while making lifeless 2v keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction Syn|Hypo|Hyper conserve, keep up, preserve embalm preserve a dead body plastinatepreserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes hold the linehold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant mummifyremove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it keep look after; be the keeper of; have charge of 3v supply with necessities and support Syn|Hypo|Hyper keep, sustain patronage support by being a patron of reseedmaintain by seeding without human intervention carrykeep up with financial support have, have got, hold have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense 4v have and exercise Syn|Hyper exert, wield have, have got, hold have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense 5v stick to correctly or closely 2Syn keep, observe 1v state or assert He maintained his innocence Syn|Hypo|Hyper defend vindicate maintain, uphold, or defend affirm say yes to 2v state categorically 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper assert, asseverate allege, aver, say report or maintain predicate, proclaimaffirm or declare as an attribute or quality of pleadmake an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts insist, take a firm stand be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge 1v maintain for use and service Syn|Hyper keep have, have got, hold have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense 2v maintain by writing regular records 4maintain a record Syn|Hyper keep enter, put down, record make a record of; set down in permanent form v support against an opponent Syn|Hypo|Hyper uphold justify, vindicate show to be right by providing justification or proof excuse, explainserve as a reason or cause or justification of legitimateshow or affirm to be just and legitimate confirm, reassert strengthen or make more firm |
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