And climbers sometimes have to hold on to rocks by only their fingers or toes.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.

有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I don't know, to just hold on to and to have and it's, they've had it for years, you know, like.

坚持经过这么多年保留下来的东西，

观众是我的动力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Once he has it, he intends to hold on to it until such time as the president and his national security team are ready to consider it."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

To do this, Pelosi has to try to hold on to the Democrats' current majority in the House of Representatives when the entire House is up for re-election this November.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

Thank you. Hold on to that thought for second, I'm going to come back to it.

我再来回到问题上，并不是假定我在搜索。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Law Professor Yusri Mohammad, with the International University in Malaysia, says the Muslim community is not becoming more conservative, but it is trying to hold on to its values and way of life.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But if the two parties fail to make an agreement, Mr.Clegg could side with Labor, giving the party that has led Britain for more than a decade a chance to hold on to power.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

They have a formula that defines how much Tier I and Tier II capital a bank has to hold and the amount depends on the risk class of their investments.

有一个公式可以计算出,一个银行到底需要持有多少一级和二级资本,其数量取决于他们投资项目的风险等级

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

President Obama promised to hold a summit on entrepreneurship in his speech to the Islamic world last June in Cairo.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

And they're ready to go out, and Sal says: "Hold on a minute. I'll be right with you as soon as I finish this chapter," and it was one of the best chapters in the book.

他们准备出去，Sal说：,再等一分钟，我打完这一章就走,马上就好“,这是我书中最精彩的一章。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down,down, just like one of those poor,tired leaves."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

You kind of hold on to it carefully and you cross the river.

你得小心扶着过桥。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A new Senate subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law plans to hold a hearing on May tenth about protecting mobile privacy.

VOA: special.2011.05.02

But they spent a lot of time, energy, and money on being sure that they would have a supply of water to hold them for a long siege.

他们花费了大量的时间,精力,和金钱来确保,在长期的围城中他们可以获得足够的水源

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

an American officer said, "is hold on to the hill and Santiago will be ours."

VOA: special.2010.07.15

And we will then get over to here, where he's sitting on the tonic chord, and we want to see how long he's going to hold this tonic chord. Okay?

接着再到这里来，他停在了主音和弦上，然后我们想看看他会在主音和弦上保持多久，好吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

On November eleventh, communities across the United States hold ceremonies to observe Veterans Day.

VOA: special.2010.11.05

As these more risky mortgages come along t hold on to these mortgages.

随着贷款风险的加大,银行无力贷款，banks，don’

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Then they nail on battens to hold the hatch coverings firmly in place.

VOA: special.2011.03.06

Just swapping them, right? I temporarily hold on to what's in the i'th element so I can move the i plus first one in, and then replace that with the i'th element.

交换他们，对么？,临时的保存下第i个元素,然后把第i+1个元素移进来，把i+1的位置替换为第i个元素。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She announced the proposal to hold a high-level meeting on March thirty-first.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

The company hopes to loosen Microsoft's hold on the market.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Mr.Obama also plans to seek money-saving ideas from private industry, and to hold a forum later this year on reforming government.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

The ministers will also hold talks on new areas of cooperation with Russia,and the new U.S.approach to missile defense.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Before returning to Washington, Secretary Clinton is to fly to Russia's ethnically diverse Republic of Tartarstan to hold a roundtable discussion on Thursday.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

She calls for concrete and immediate action to hold perpetrators accountable, particularly since sexual violence continues to take place on a daily basis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

He will hold his first bilateral meeting of the trip with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama talks that are likely to focus on economic and security matters.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12