音标:[mein'tein] ; 柯林斯词典等级:4 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
vt. 维持, 维修, 保持, 坚持, 供养, 主张
[化] 维修
v. state or assert
词型变化:过去分词 : maintained ; 现在分词 : maintaining ; 过去式 : maintained ; 第三人称单数 : maintains
考试类型:[四级/六级/考研/托福/IELTS]
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动词100%

maintain的用法和样例:

例句

用作及物动词(vt.)
  1. It is absolutely vital that food supplies should be maintained.维持食物的供给是绝对必要的。
  2. They also help us to maintain the machinery.他们还帮助我们维修机器。
  3. They tell the peasants in detail how to maintain the pumps.他们详细地教给农民怎样保养抽水机。
  4. It is clearly illogical to maintain such a proposition.坚持这种主张显然是没有道理的。
  5. He maintains that there are no short cuts to effective management.他断言,有效的管理没有捷径可走。

常见句型

用作动词(v.)
用作及物动词S+~+ n./pron.
  1. Food is necessary to maintain life.食物是维持生命所必需的。
  2. How much does it cost to maintain this house?维修这栋房子需要多少钱?
  3. The government maintains the law.政府维护法律。
  4. Be careful to maintain your reputation.要小心保持你的名誉。
  5. The two countries have maintained friendly relations for many years.两国多年来一直保持着友好的关系。
  6. They still maintain some distance from him.他们和他仍然保持着一定的距离。
  7. He has to maintain his wife and two children.他不得不养活妻子和两个孩子。
  8. Somehow he managed to maintain a son at the university.他设法供一个儿子上了大学。
  9. The machine is very simple to maintain.这机器保养起来很简便。
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  11. The public order is well maintained.公共秩序维持得很好。
  12. In our country, universities and colleges are maintained by the state.在我国,大专院校是由国家办的。
  13. He was maintained by pride in his family.对家庭的自豪感支持着他。
S+~+that-clause
  1. He maintained that he was not to be blamed.他坚持说他不应该受到责怪。
  2. She maintains that the accusation is groundless.她坚持认为该指控是毫无根据的。
用作宾补动词S+~+ n./pron. +to be adj.
  1. He maintained the policy to be wrong.他坚持认为这个政策是错误的。

常用短语

用作动词(v.)
maintain at (v.+prep.)
    把…保持在 keep sth at a (higher) levelmaintain sth at sth

    We must do our best to maintain sales at their usual rate in these times of poor trade.

    在生意不景气的时候,我们要尽力使销售额保持在平日的水平上。

maintain in (v.+prep.)
    供养…使之以…生活 support sb in sth
maintain on (v.+prep.)
    依靠…供养 support sb on sthmaintain sb on sth

    He has to maintain a large family on a small salary.

    他不得不依靠很少的工资养活一家人。

maintain with (v.+prep.)
    与…保持 retain with sbmaintain sth with sb

    We maintain cordial relations with our neighbours.

    我们与邻里保持亲切友好的关系。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
  • maintain a balance保持平衡
  • maintain discipline维护纪律
  • maintain distance保持距离
  • maintain one's family供养家庭
  • maintain friendship保持友谊
  • maintain the front支撑门面,维持场面
  • maintain life维持生命
  • maintain an open mind无成见
  • maintain order维持秩序
  • maintain peace and order维持治安
  • maintain position保持地位
  • maintain public highways养护公路
  • maintain relationship保持关系
  • maintain one's right维护自己的权利
  • maintain stability保持稳定
  • maintain standard维持水准
  • maintain one's strength保持体力
  • maintain strong ties with与…保持紧密的联系
  • maintain the style of保持…的作风
  • maintain unity保持团结
~+副词
  • maintain adequately充分地保养
  • maintain agreeably容易保养
  • maintain categorically明确地主张
  • maintain cautiously谨慎地主张
  • maintain confusedly不明确地主张
  • maintain consistently一致坚持
  • maintain contemptuously傲慢地坚持
  • maintain conventionally按常规坚持
  • maintain curiously不寻常地坚持
  • maintain emphatically坚决主张
  • maintain fundamentally基本上主张
  • maintain intelligently明智地主张
  • maintain intensely热情地主张
  • maintain personally个人主张
  • maintain progressively不断主张
  • maintain quietly悄悄地继续
  • maintain remarkably可靠地供给
  • maintain rigidly强硬地坚持
  • maintain satisfactorily满意地供给
  • maintain spectacularly特殊地供给
  • maintain stubbornly顽强地坚持
  • maintain successfully〔victoriously〕成功地坚持
  • maintain theoretically理论主张
  • maintain thoughtlessly轻率地坚持
  • maintain tyrannically强有力地坚持
  • maintain unhesitatingly毫不迟疑地主张
  • maintain unnecessarily不必要地坚持
  • maintain unreasonably不合理地主张
~+介词
  • maintain one's ground against the enemy坚持自己反对敌人的立场

经典引文

  • Let ours also learne to maintaine good workes..that they be not unfruitfull.

    出自:Bible (AV): Titus
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