Maintain

(verb.) state or assert; 'He maintained his innocence'.

哈迪编辑

• And the lips that shall refuse to pledge me to his well-earned fame, I term false and dishonoured, and will so maintain them with my life. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Hence it was necessary to maintain a constant vigilance to defeat the insidious attacks of carping critics and others who would attempt to injure the Edison system by misleading statements. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I have heard people maintain that: it makes no difference whether women want the ballot, or are fit for it, or can do any good with it,--this country is a democracy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• With all deference to you, he said, and with all deference to your legal adviser, I maintain the opinion which I expressed just now. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Not much argument was needed to maintain the truth of a theory which to his own contemporaries seemed so natural and congenial. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Yet no one would seriously maintain that the West is more progressive because it has progressive laws. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is called a siphon recorder because the record is made by a little glass siphon down which a flow of ink is maintained like a fountain pen. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• In such cases their internal freedom was maintained by a royal or imperial charter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He said he had entreated her to favour him by maintaining her privilege of fixing the time for the marriage at her own will and pleasure. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• How to remove the heated, vitiated air and to supply fresh air while maintaining the same uniform temperature is a problem of long standing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But it is not selfless--it is a maintaining of the self in mystic balance and integrity--like a star balanced with another star. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Whatever expense Great Britain has hitherto laid out in maintaining this dependency, has really been laid out in order to support this monopoly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In the one way, besides, this expense maintains productive, in the other unproductive hands. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• But the whole produce of the land undoubtedly belongs to him, who can dispose of the labour and service of all those whom it maintains. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Land, however improved, will yield no revenue without a circulating capital, which maintains the labourers who cultivate and collect its produce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The labour of menial servants does not continue the existence of the fund which maintains and employs them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Besides this, the National Phonograph Company maintains a special staff for carrying on the business with foreign countries. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Still he maintains the true attitude of moral action. 柏拉图. 理想国.

奥尔登录入