Skip to main content

maintained

/meyn-teyn/US // meɪnˈteɪn //UK // (meɪnˈteɪn) //

保持,维持,维护,维护的

Related Words

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
    • : to keep in an appropriate condition, operation, or force; keep unimpaired: to maintain order; to maintain public highways.
    • : to keep in a specified state, position, etc.: to maintain a correct posture; to maintain good health.
    • : to affirm; assert; declare: He maintained that the country was going downhill.
    • : to support in speech or argument, as a statement or proposition.
    • : to keep or hold against attack: to maintain one's ground.
    • : to provide for the upkeep or support of; carry the expenses of: to maintain a family.
    • : to sustain or support: not enough water to maintain life.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcare for, keep up
verbassert, claim; argue for

Examples

  • As Darcy points out, the strategy Fox has always used to maintain the loyalty of its viewers — telling them that every other news source is fatally infected with liberal bias — is now being deployed by those minor-league outlets against Fox itself.

  • Based on contact tracing and genomic sequencing, league officials maintain they have seen no evidence of on-field transmission of the virus during games.

  • Several states maintain school-level data dashboards that provide information on infections among students and staff who attend in-person school.

  • He said that “there is leadership in place” and that the facility meets department guidelines of maintaining an 8-to-1 ratio for staff and youths.

  • People should maintain six feet of distance at all times from people from other households.

  • But the proud stone lion that once stood atop the tomb, as Peristeri has often maintained, suggests a male occupant and a warrior.

  • He has been summoned from the command post the NYPD has maintained for a decade just up the street.

  • He does not seem to have anticipated that she could have maintained such remarkable presence of mind.

  • “A nation of homeowners, of people who own a real share in their land, is unconquerable,” he maintained.

  • Despite any partisan enmities, the two top politicos maintained a cordial relationship.

  • El Imparcial maintained that he was worthy of being honoured as a 19th century conquering hero.

  • The battle was for a long time maintained by both armies with obstinate energy.

  • With that sum, twice as much infantry could be maintained as that which your Majesty has here.

  • This was when Don Joan Ronquillo, with that great fleet, went out and fought the one that the enemy maintained along these coasts.

  • The latter maintained their ground, but no important advantage was gained by either party.