maintains

1. vt. 保持; 继续 keep up; retain; continue
2. vt. 坚持; 主张 assert as true
3. vt. 保养,维护 keep in good repair; defend
4. vt. 供给; 赡养support

• maintain a balance保持平衡
• maintain discipline维护纪律
• maintain distance保持距离
• maintain one's family供养家庭
• maintain friendship保持友谊
• maintain the front支撑门面,维持场面
• maintain life维持生命
• maintain an open mind无成见
• maintain order维持秩序
• maintain peace and order维持治安
• maintain position保持地位
• maintain public highways养护公路
• maintain relationship保持关系
• maintain one's right维护自己的权利
• maintain stability保持稳定
• maintain standard维持水准
• maintain one's strength保持体力
• maintain strong ties with与…保持紧密的联系
• maintain the style of保持…的作风
• maintain unity保持团结

• maintain adequately充分地保养
• maintain agreeably容易保养
• maintain categorically明确地主张
• maintain cautiously谨慎地主张
• maintain confusedly不明确地主张
• maintain consistently一致坚持
• maintain contemptuously傲慢地坚持
• maintain conventionally按常规坚持
• maintain curiously不寻常地坚持
• maintain emphatically坚决主张
• maintain fundamentally基本上主张
• maintain intelligently明智地主张
• maintain intensely热情地主张
• maintain personally个人主张
• maintain progressively不断主张
• maintain quietly悄悄地继续
• maintain remarkably可靠地供给
• maintain rigidly强硬地坚持
• maintain satisfactorily满意地供给
• maintain spectacularly特殊地供给
• maintain stubbornly顽强地坚持
• maintain successfully〔victoriously〕成功地坚持
• maintain theoretically理论主张
• maintain thoughtlessly轻率地坚持
• maintain tyrannically强有力地坚持
• maintain unhesitatingly毫不迟疑地主张
• maintain unnecessarily不必要地坚持
• maintain unreasonably不合理地主张

• maintain one's ground against the enemy坚持自己反对敌人的立场

maintain in维持…；保持…

maintain order维持秩序

maintain world peace维护世界和平

maintain contact with与...保持联系

maintain discipline维持纪律

1. It is absolutely vital that food supplies should be maintained.
   维持食物的供给是绝对必要的。
2. They also help us to maintain the machinery.
   他们还帮助我们维修机器。
3. They tell the peasants in detail how to maintain the pumps.
   他们详细地教给农民怎样保养抽水机。
4. It is clearly illogical to maintain such a proposition.
   坚持这种主张显然是没有道理的。
5. He maintains that there are no short cuts to effective management.
   他断言,有效的管理没有捷径可走。