| 单词 | maintain |
| 释义 | main·tain 1. < exercise … sufficient to maintain bodily and mental vigor — H.G.Armstrong > 2. a. < only fast ironclad cruisers could maintain the position of the Union against other naval powers — H.K.Beale > b. < maintains his logical position > 3. < members of the … tribe maintain native customs with ceremonial dances — New York Times > < the husband could be certain of maintaining a certain standard of living — Saturday Review > < in addition to maintaining his news schedule he served as a fire warden — Current Biography > 4. < the lady of beauty is maintained as the pampered wife of a wealthy man — Lucy Crockett > < two homes, with 145 beds, are maintained for the age and indigent — Americana Annual > 5. < maintained that this government was untrustworthy — Collier's Year Book > < was maintaining … that “modern society could hardly look worse” — Saturday Review > 6. Synonyms: < maintain that the whole educational scheme of our schools and colleges should be recast, and that a much larger portion of it should be devoted to modern languages and to history — R.B.Merriman > < stubbornly maintained his views in any argument even to insisting upon certain observations which subsequently were shown to be practically impossible — Witmer Stone > assert may indicate a setting forth of something as true, valid, or existent with or without aggressive determination to convince and to silence opposition < that rigid sect which asserts that all real science is precise measurement — Havelock Ellis > < in Elizabethan drama, the critic is rash who will assert boldly that any play is by a single hand — T.S.Eliot > < what I contend myself with asserting here you can scarcely deny — A.T.Quiller-Couch > defend may apply to a stating as true in the face of attack, objection, or disbelief, often as a calm apologist without the aggressiveness suggested by assert < defended his action by saying it was the best and quickest way — S.H.Holbrook > < called upon to defend his action against Russian charges that undesirable persons remained in office — Current Biography > vindicate suggests an adducing with force, cogency, logic, truth, or evidence that overwhelms doubt, hesitancy, denial, or opposition < the aesthetic apologies by which artists and art critics vindicate artistic activity — Bernard Smith > < have all vindicated ourselves and received responsible positions — John Dos Passos > justify indicates an appeal to a standard of law or right or to an accepted rule or measure to show the truth, validity, or propriety of something < justified the right of revolution not upon the ground of hostile acts of the people but upon usurpations of authority upon the part of those to whom such authority has been delegated — W.S.Myers > < justified his seizure of power on the grounds of an alleged conspiracy by the government to control the elections — Americana Annual > |
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