Retain

(verb.) keep in one's mind; 'I cannot retain so much information'.

(verb.) secure and keep for possible future use or application; 'The landlord retained the security deposit'; 'I reserve the right to disagree'.

(verb.) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; 'We cannot continue several servants any longer'; 'She retains a lawyer'; 'The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff'; 'Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on'; 'We kept the work going as long as we could'; 'She retained her composure'; 'this garment retains its shape even after many washings'.

(verb.) hold back within; 'This soil retains water'; 'I retain this drug for a long time'; 'the dam retains the water'.

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• Her lover was no longer to her an exciting man whom many women strove for, and herself could only retain by striving with them. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• My good friend, said the King, you have now been five and forty years in the service of my mother and myself; we have allowed you to retain your religion in the midst of fire and slaughter. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Most cutters remove as little of the rough stone as possible in cutting so as to retain weight (they sell by weight). 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The last crevice had closed, and for a long year that hideous chamber would retain its secret from the eyes of men. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• What I did mean to say, was, that I never expected to retain my favoured place in this family, after Fortune shed her beams upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Silk, lace, and wool when bleached with chlorine become hard and brittle, but when whitened with sulphurous acid, they retain their natural characteristics. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Nor did it retain any hold upon the minds of his disciples in a later generation; it was probably unintelligible to them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect, he continued, disregarding my remonstrance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Richard sagaciously saw, as Jussieu observes, that this genus should still be retained among the Malpighiaceae. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• After all, Watson, said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The sick man drew a hand of his old fellow-prisoner towards him, and pressing it affectionately between both his own, retained it in his grasp. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Blake and Fromentin were able to reproduce in picture s scenes long retained in memory. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• How Heat is Distributed, Retained, and Moistened. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Smooth-bore cannon and mortars of cast-iron and bronze are still retained in some fortresses, though rifled cannon are the only type now made. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Set going under adequate conditions they are magnets for gathering and retaining an indefinitely wide scope of intellectual considerations. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It lies near the pliable elasticity by which some persons take on the color of their surroundings while retaining their own bent. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I shan't be one long,' he replied, looking up with a face retaining no human expression but rage and terror. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Certainly, certainly, said Marks, with a conciliatory tone; it's only a retaining fee, you see,--he! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He showed and claimed for the first time the knotting bill, which loops and forms the knot, and the turning cord holder for retaining the end of the cord. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• His failure was but proof that he needed more discipline, and thus afforded a reason for retaining the old methods. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He says: In one sense it knows more than we know ourselves, for it retains the memory of many things which we forget, even though we have said them. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Let us assume that she retains her power. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• From time immemorial the manufacture of iron and steel has been followed in Germany, and that country yet retains pre-eminence in this art both as to mechanical and chemical processes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The ovens are highly insulated with a thick packing of best grade mineral wool, which reduces air leakage to a minimum and retains the heat generated for a long period. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In the third division he is shown still higher in the air; and in the fourth he is mounted above the shoulders of pantaloon, who retains the same posture as at first. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• It ought to be so; it must be so, while he retains the use of his reason. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The portion of a hat protected by the band retains its fresh appearance because the light has not had access to it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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