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retaining

/ri-teyn/US // rɪˈteɪn //UK // (rɪˈteɪn) //

保留,保持,保留的,留住

Related Words

preserve维护,保存,保全,保护enjoy享受,享有,享用,欣赏absorb吸收,吸纳,吸收了,吸收的own自己的,拥有,自己,属于自己的recognize确认,认识,认识到,认可keep保持,保持保持maintain保持,维持,维护,维护好have有,拥有,具有,已contain含有,包含,含,包含了hold持有,举行,保持,持有的possess拥有,具有,具备,占有employ聘用,雇佣,雇用,雇请pay支付,支付费用,支付的费用,支付报酬remember记住,记得,记,铭记retrospect回头看,回顾,回望,回忆memorize记忆,熟记,背诵,记住recall召回,回顾,回忆,追忆mind思想,心灵,介意,脑子里recollect忆起,记起,追忆,回忆withhold扣留,隐瞒,隐瞒不报,隐匿

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to keep possession of.
    • : to continue to use, practice, etc.: to retain an old custom.
    • : to continue to hold or have: to retain a prisoner in custody; a cloth that retains its color.
    • : to keep in mind; remember.
    • : to hold in place or position.
    • : to engage, especially by payment of a preliminary fee: to retain a lawyer.
    • : Medicine/Medical. to keep in the body, especially abnormally; fail to eliminate: I was referred to a specialty clinic and they discovered that I was retaining urine.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.maintaining
Synonyms
accommodating容纳,容忍,容忍的,容纳性arresting逮捕,拘捕,抓捕,逮捕性cherishing珍惜,珍视,爱惜,珍爱commemorating纪念,纪念活动,悼念confining拘束的,拘束,拘束性的,拘拘束束embracing拥抱,拥护,拥抱的,拥抱他人employing雇用,雇佣,聘用,用人单位engaging吸引人的,有吸引力的,吸引人的的,迷人的having有,具有,拥有,有了hiring雇用,雇佣,聘用,聘请holding控股,控股权,控股公司,控股股东keeping保持,保留,保存,饲养owning自己的,自己的工作,拥有的,自己的事possessing拥有,拥有的,具有,具备preserving保存,保管,保全,保住了remembering记住,记忆,铭记,记得restraining限制性,限制,抑制,拘束saving节约,拯救,节省,储蓄securing确保安全,确保安全性,确保,确保安全的seizing缉获,缉拿,缉捕,缉查suppressing抑制性的,压制的,镇压的,镇压sustaining持续的,持续性的,持续,持续性taking摄取,承担,摄制,占用treasuring珍惜,珍视,珍藏,珍贵的withholding预扣,预提,预扣款,预扣的working工作,工作的,工作上的,工作上holding back扣留,扣押,扣住不放,扣压

Examples

  • The T2 chip is also gone, but the laptop retains the exact same fan and cooling system, with no differences whatsoever.

  • If Republicans hold one Georgia seat, they retain the chamber.

  • The final material has 90 percent less volume, while retaining 90 percent of its nutrients.

  • Starting pay rates will rise 5% “so our store managers can continue to attract and retain new talent,” Starbucks Executive Vice President Rossann Williams said in a memo seen by Bloomberg.

  • If a developer doesn’t reach $1 million in revenue in 2021, they will retain that discount in 2022.

  • Marvin hops over the edge of his retaining wall, which he built.

  • Cameron's comments will only confirm that she was in favour of retaining the Union all along.

  • World leaders, businesses, and economists have broadly supported the case for retaining the union.

  • The Upper East Side is starting to shed its Sixth Sense “I see dead people,” while retaining its grand roots.

  • In a brief interview, he told me that any deal would have to involve “retaining the National Archives of Iraq.”

  • Frequently they are found in alveolar arrangement, retaining the original outline of the alveoli of the lung (Fig. 4, b).

  • French pulled them again, upon which they roared the more, still retaining their places.

  • And I had already taken the precaution of retaining the best legal counsel in the city.

  • The walls of the castle are wonderfully complete, every tower and turret retaining its old-time battlements.

  • The wave—a billow broken to atoms, yet still retaining all its weight and motive force—overwhelmed the boat and passed on.

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