| 正面 | 924.maintain 英 [meɪn'teɪn; mən'teɪn]美 [men'ten]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. man- / manu- => main- + -tain.2. => hold in the hand, keep in the hand.3. => practice habitually, practice continually; keep (a wife), sustain; keep oneself, support, defend in speech.vt. 维持；继续；维修；主张；供养 例句： 1. In New Zealand, the Maori people maintain a strong cultural tradition.在新西兰，毛利人保持着深厚的文化传统。 maintain 维持，保持，保养来自古法语maintenir,保持，维持，来自拉丁语manu tenere,握在手上，控制，来自manu,手，词源同manual,tenere,握住，词源同tenure,contain.引申多种词义。 maintainmaintain: [13] Etymologically, maintain means ‘hold in the hand’. It comes via Old French maintenir from Vulgar Latin *manūtenēre ‘support’, a compound verb formed from manū, the ablative case of manus ‘hand’, and tenēre ‘hold’. The derivative maintenance [14] comes from Old French.=> maintenance, manual, tenantmaintain (v.)mid-13c., "to practice habitually," from Anglo-French meintenir (Old French maintenir, 12c.) "keep (a wife), sustain; persevere in, practice continually," from Latin manu tenere "hold in the hand," from manu, ablative of manus "hand" (see manual) + tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Meaning "to carry on, keep up" is from mid-14c.; that of "to keep oneself, to support" is from late 14c. Sense of "to defend in speech" is from mid-14c. Related: Maintained; maintaining; maintains." |