maintain
美 [meɪnˈteɪn] 
英 [meɪn'teɪn]
词形变化
第三人称单数：maintains 现在分词：maintaining 过去式：maintained 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | ~ sth 维持；保持to make sth continue at the same level, standard, etc. |
| to maintain law and order/standards/a balance 维持治安；保持水平╱平衡 |
| The two countries have always maintained close relations. 这两个国家一直保持着密切关系。 |
| She maintained a dignified silence. 她一言不发，面容威严。 |
| to maintain prices(= prevent them falling or rising) 维持价格的稳定 |
2. | ~ sth 维修；保养to keep a building, a machine, etc. in good condition by checking or repairing it regularly |
| The house is large and difficult to maintain. 房子很大，难以养护。 |
3. | 坚持（意见）；固执己见to keep stating that sth is true, even though other people do not agree or do not believe it |
| The men maintained (that) they were out of the country when the crime was committed. 这几个男人坚持说案发时他们在国外。 |
| She has always maintained her innocence . 她一直坚持说她是无辜的。 |
| ‘But I'm innocent!’ she maintained. “但是我是无辜的！”她坚持道。 |
4. | ~ sb/sth 供养；扶养to support sb/sth over a long period of time by giving money, paying for food, etc. |
| Her income was barely enough to maintain one child, let alone three. 她的收入养活一个孩子几乎都不够，更不用说三个了。 |
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例句
Married to a woman still able to maintain themselves, must not become a victim of the family.
女人婚后要依然能保持自我，切不可沦为家庭的牺牲品。
Chengzong decided to maintain and continue much of the work begun by his grandfather.
Chengzong决定维持和继续的许多工作已经开始，他的祖父。
Here's a tip that seems so simple, and yet can be difficult to maintain in practice: stop, and notice what you are doing in this moment.
这有些小贴士，看起来很简单，但要坚持做的话却没那么容易：停下来，看看你正在在干些什么。
The West and its partners must be ready to maintain political, economic and military pressure until he is gone.
西方及其伙伴应不断施以政治、经济和军事压力，直至其垮台。
European Union leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to help Greece out of its current debt woes and maintain EU financial stability.
欧盟领导人重申他们帮助希腊渡过当前债务危机并维持欧盟财政稳定的承诺。
It is often desirable to serialize an object independent of any references that other objects may maintain to it .
通常期望序列化一个对象独立于其他对象可能维护的任何引用。
Mr Gates said the US would maintain a strong military presence in the region, including sending a new combat ship to Singapore.
盖茨表示，美国将在该地区保持强大的军事存在，包括向新加坡派遣一艘新战舰。
That combination makes code quick to write and easy to maintain over time, he said.
他表示，这样的兼收并蓄能让编写代码变得迅速，而维护起来也方便得多。
Maintain a relationship with me and treat me in a manner with which he or she feels most comfortable.
与我保持关系，以他感到最舒适的方式对待我。
Mr Trott's firm will maintain a close relationship with Goldman, said people close to the matter.
知情人士表示，特洛特的公司将与高盛保持密切往来。
Consumability: Complex middleware stacks supporting Web services are not easy to maintain over time due to their interdependencies.
可用性：支持Web服务的复杂中间件不容易维护，因为它们是相互依赖的。
Made, durable, removable and washable, easy to maintain, a mean number of ordinary cast iron stove.
造，坚固耐用，可拆洗，维护方便，一个等于几个普通铸铁炉头。
And my primary responsibilities were to maintain the company's ties with the existing customers and try to find new cargo sources.
我的基本职责是保持与现有客户的合作关系，搜寻新的货源。
Of these, worry about not being able to maintain their standard of living is the only one a majority of Americans mention.
其中，担心他们不能维持生活水平是大部分美国人唯一一个提到的问题。
A calculation that can be used to determine how much thinner needs to be added to the flux to maintain a specified specific gravity.
用来确定向焊剂中添加多少稀释剂，以使其保持规定的比重的计算。
The result for customers is a fully automatic, extremely efficient machine with an uncomplicated , easy to maintain design.
由于客户是一个完全自动的，极为有效的机简单，易于维护的设计。
Maintain cleanliness and proper function of the refrigerator. Clean it once a week. Do not litter.
雪柜要保持清洁和良好运作，每星期要清洗雪柜一次。
Rather than spread your version requirements all over your code, it is best to gather them in one location to make it easy to maintain.
比起将你的版本需求写满代码页，最好的办法是将它们放在一个文件中以利于维护。
How much exercise do you need to improve and maintain health? What kind of exercise do you need?
你需要多少量的锻炼改善和保持健康？
Without US financial aid, Israel would not be able to maintain anything close to the living standards and defense budget it now has.
如果没有美国的财政援助，以色列将不能够维持它现今拥有的基本生活水平和国防预算。
All that remained was to preserve competition in the packing industry and maintain close public scrutiny over the stockyards.
剩下的只是维护食品加工业中的竞争和保持公众对牲畜围场的周密监督。
The function of an air conditioning system is to provide and maintain an artificial environment within a building enclosure.
空气调节系统的作用是建立和维持建筑物内的人工气候。
I turned my eyes from him, fixed them on the fire, and tried to assume and maintain a quiet, collected aspect.
我眼睛避开他，去盯着看火，竭力摆出和保持一副安静和镇定的样子。
The purpose of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security.
联合国的宗旨是维护国际和平与安全。
We must ever maintain the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.
我们必当永远维护一项原则，即唯有本洲人民自己有权决定自己的命运。
He has to maintain his wife and five children.
他不得不养活妻子和5个孩子。
Many Guard and Reserve officers had grown old in the prewar struggle to maintain a citizen security force.
许多保安队和预备军官，均已在战前所维持之国民治安部队中渐趋衰老。
A group of leading banks constituted a milliard-dollar pool to maintain and stabilize the market.
一些重要的银行筹出了十亿美元的资金，以求维持和稳定市场。
Policemen preserve [maintain] order in the streets.
警察在街上维持秩序。
They tell the peasants in detail how to maintain the pumps.
他们详细地告诉农民们怎样保养抽水机。
This implementation is only valid for elements that do not maintain any more descriptive collection of visual child elements.
此实现所适用的元素不维护其他任何说明性可视化子元素集合。
Only by focusing on the whole experience and daring to break out of its own mold will Facebook maintain momentum and growth.
只有专注于整体体验并勇于突破自我才能长盛不衰。
When you maintain the state of flow it will feel as if there's powerful energy working through you, driving you onward.
如果你维持涌流状态，就会感到有很强大的能量在你体内驱使你前进。
It will be interesting, however, to see whether Kerr can maintain the ' squeaky clean' image necessary for such a role.
然而，看可儿能不能维持扮演这一角色所需的“极其干净”的形象是件有趣的事。
The Israelis would also be able to maintain their early-warning station in the West Bank with a Palestinian liaison presence.
以方还可以在西岸继续保持其预警站，但要设巴勒斯坦联络官。
It remains true, however, that the New Deal did not cure unemployment, just as its critics maintain.
然而，正如批评人士所言，新政没有解决失业问题，这一直是事实。
As you deepen the bend of the knees, maintain a straight line from the top of your head to your tailbone.
当你加深双膝的弯曲幅度是，保持头顶到尾骨一条直线。
There will be some who will attempt to construct and maintain some fictional memory of him as a brave "anti-imperialist" .
也许会有人试着在虚幻的记忆中去构建和维持他那勇敢的“反帝国主义”形象。
In addition to its outstanding efficiency and safety of operation, the crusher is extremely easy to service and maintain.
该设备除了具有较高的运行效率和安全性外，其维护和保养也极其容易。
In order to maintain the right amount of stiffness, your muscles need to know how much resistance they're up against.
人体肌肉需要了解他们所承受的阻力是多少以便能够保持适当的刚度。
It also would be illegal if TimeCo agreed with your competitors to drop you as a dealer to help maintain a price to which they had agreed.
如果TimeCo公司与你的竞争者合谋将你逐出市场以维持他们的协议价格，也是非法的。
A sound structure, easy expansion, easy to maintain, with good man-machine interface of the information management system.
一个体系结构完善的、易扩充的、易维护的、具有良好人机交互界面的资料管理系统。
Both main parties have pledged to maintain spending on the National Health Service (NHS), at least for the next few years.
两大政党都宣称维持国家医疗卫生服务的开销，至少往后几年是这样。
Toyota is about to release a new Camry, which has underwhelmed early reviewers and no doubt will undergo revision to maintain dominance.
丰田即将发布新款凯美瑞（Camry），该车的老款并未给评论家留下深刻印象，毫无疑问，为保证其主导地位，新款必将有所改进。
Below the expression that maintain one's composure, concealing the mind that the bottom of the heart hops most ardently .
不动声色的神色下，掩饰着心底最为热烈跳跃的思想。
Maintaining your code structure in such a way that reduces repetition, is better organized, and is easier to read and maintain.
以能够减少重复、更具组织性、更易于读取和维护的方式维护您的代码结构
The function of an air conditioning system is to provide and maintain an artificial environment within a building enclosure.
空气调节系统的作用是建立和维持建筑物内的人工气候。
Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, flexible, and optimized for the user's machine.
的Gentoo的包管理是专为模块化，轻便，易于维护，灵活，适合用户的机器。
Whether wear or not. The evening dress needs to be maintain, Best then dry cleans one time once in a while.
不论穿与不穿，礼服都需要保养，最好每隔一段时间便干洗一次。
Prostitutes in life to maintain their chastity and moral justice, scholars, ready to abandon principle is Celtic.
妓女用性命来维持自己的贞节和道德大义，士大夫倒是放弃原则，随时准备改换门庭。
