(verb.) state or assert; 'He maintained his innocence'.
哈迪编辑
双语例句
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.