maintain

vt.
1. keep up保持。
△Ado.4.1.207 (205): “Maintain amourning ostentation，”保持一种办丧事的样子。
2. carry on,continue把…进行下去，继续。
△Tw.4.2109(99): “Maintain no words with him,good fel-low.”不要再跟他谈话，好伙计。
3. hold,keep,entertain进行，保持，招待。
△Lr.3.3.16(15):“Go you and maintain talk with the Duke.”你去陪公爵谈话。
4. allege,declare断言，宣称。
△Lr.1.2.78 (71):“But Ihave heard him oft maintain it to be fit that.”不过我常听到他主张说…
△Ado.4.1.216 (214):“She dying,asit must be so maintained,/ Upon the instant that shewas accused.”我们必须这样断言：她在被指控时当场死去。
△1H.VI.2.4.72: “Well,I'll find friends to wear mybleeding roses. / That shall maintain what I have saidis true.”哼，我会找到朋友们佩戴我这流血的玫瑰，他们定会宣布我所说的话是真的。
maintain upon: declare against宣称反对。
△Lr.5.3111 (110):“If any man of quality or degree within thelists of the army will maintain upon Edmund,sup-posed Earl of Gloucester，”本部军中在名册的任何出身高贵、具有一定地位的人员，凡愿意指控爱德蒙，即自称为葛罗斯特伯爵者。
5. assert,uphold坚持，维持。
△1H.VI.2.4.88: “ByHim that made me,I'll maintain my words / On any plot of ground in Christendom.”凭着创造我的上帝起誓，我在基督教国度的任何一块地方都要坚持我那些话。
△1H.VI.3.4.31: “Dar'st thou maintain the former wordsthou spak’st?”你还敢坚持你那时候说的话吗？
6. support,vindicate,defend拥护，维护，保卫。
△1H.VI.2.4.5: “Then say at once if I maintained the truth；”那么你就立刻说说我是否维护了真理。
△1H.VI.2.4.31:“Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,/ Butdare maintain the party of the truth.”只要不是懦夫或阿谀奉承之徒，而是敢于拥护真理一方的人。
△2H.VI.1.1.162(161):“Jesu maintain your royal Excellence!”愿耶稣保佑公爵殿下！
△Rom.1.2.93 (88):“When the devoutreligion of mine eye / Maintains such falsehood，” i.e.When my eyes which have devoutly worshipped Rosa-line supports such falsehood. 我这一双虔诚的眼睛倘若支持这样的谬误(即：把乌鸦当成了天鹅)。
△3H.VI.1.1.87:“Heis both King and Duke of Lancaster. / And that theLord of Westmorland shall maintain.”他既是国王又兼兰开斯特公爵，我威斯摩兰勋爵维护这种局面。
7. justify,vindicate证明…正当，维持。
△Lr.5.3.100(99): “he that dares approach. / On him. on you.who not? I will maintain / My truth and honour firm-ly.”谁敢前来，我就对他 ，对你，对谁不一样？ 下决心证明(又译：维护)我的忠贞和荣誉。
△1H.IV.4.3. 9: “And I dare wellmaintain it with my life，”而且我也敢拿我的生命来证实这一点。
△2H.IV.3.2.82 (74):“By this day,I know notthe phrase,but I will maintain the word with my sword to be a soldier-like word，”凭着这大白天起誓，我不懂这个好词儿，但是我要用我的剑来证明这个词儿是合乎军人身份的词儿。
8. pay the expenses of,sustain 供养。
△Wiv.3.4.45:“He will maintain you like a gentlewoman.”他将把你当做一位贵妇人来供养。
△2H.VI.4.7.74 (69): “Whenhave I aught exacted at your hands,/ But to maintainthe King,the realm,and you?” 我什么时候从你们手中收取税款不是为了供给国王、国家和你们？
9. nourish 养育，滋养。
△3H.VI.3.3.126: “The leavesand fruit maintained with beauty's sun，”那枝叶和果实受到美的阳光所滋养。
10. afford 负担得起。
△Shr.5.1.78 (76):“I thank mygood father,I am able to maintain it.”我感谢我的好父亲，我能负担得起。
11. represent代表。
△L.L.L.5.2.900 (892): “the onemaintained by the owl,th' (i. e. the) other by thecuckoo.” 一方由鸱鸺代表，另一方由杜鹃代表。

• 'neath
• nebula
• nebulous
• necessarily
• necessary
• necessitate
• necessitous
• necessity
• neck
• necromancy
• necropolis
• nectar
• nectarine
• nee
• need
• need
• need
• needle
• needs
• ne'er
• nefarious
• negate
• negation
• negative
• neglect