单词：maintains
v keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
v supply with necessities and support
v state categorically
v have and exercise
v maintain for use and service
v maintain by writing regular records
v state or assert
v support against an opponent
v stick to correctly or closely
maintain的用法和样例：
例句
- It is absolutely vital that food supplies should be maintained.维持食物的供给是绝对必要的。
- They also help us to maintain the machinery.他们还帮助我们维修机器。
- 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。
- It is clearly illogical to maintain such a proposition.坚持这种主张显然是没有道理的。
- 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
- Food is necessary to maintain life.食物是维持生命所必需的。
- How much does it cost to maintain this house?维修这栋房子需要多少钱?
- The government maintains the law.政府维护法律。
- Be careful to maintain your reputation.要小心保持你的名誉。
- 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。
- They still maintain some distance from him.他们和他仍然保持着一定的距离。
- He has to maintain his wife and two children.他不得不养活妻子和两个孩子。
- Somehow he managed to maintain a son at the university.他设法供一个儿子上了大学。
- The machine is very simple to maintain.这机器保养起来很简便。 1
- The public order is well maintained.公共秩序维持得很好。
- In our country, universities and colleges are maintained by the state.在我国,大专院校是由国家办的。
- He was maintained by pride in his family.对家庭的自豪感支持着他。
- He maintained that he was not to be blamed.他坚持说他不应该受到责怪。
- She maintains that the accusation is groundless.她坚持认为该指控是毫无根据的。
- He maintained the policy to be wrong.他坚持认为这个政策是错误的。
常用短语
- 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。
- 供养…使之以…生活 support sb in sth
- 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。
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- support支持
- uphold支持
- preserve保护
- keep保持
- hold拿着
- insist坚持
- keep up保持 继续 维持 跟上(...
- assert断言
- claim要求
- sustain支持
- continue继续
- argue说服
- save救
- possess拥有
- protect保护
- bear熊
- retain保持
- look after照料
- care for照顾
- take care of照顾
- guard看守
- provide供给
- profess 声称
- shoulder肩膀
- settlement解决
- justify替 ... 辩护
- harbor海港
- propose打算
- nourish滋养
- own自己的
- befriend待 ... 如友
- conserve蜜饯
- back后面
- exert运用
- testify作证
- asseverate郑重声言
- allege断言
- affirm证实
- wield行使
- defend防守
- store商店
- observe观察
- abandon放弃
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