When they have removed all the dirt, they are down to the brass tacks, the copper pieces that hold the boat together.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

A kind of a pin used to hold your cloak together, called a fibula, unknown in the previous period.

一种别住披风的别针,称之为扣针,这在之前的时期从未出现过

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There is a necessary and inevitable tension between philosophy and belief or to put it another way between philosophy and the civic pieties that hold the city together.

所以紧张关系必然,且无可避免地存在于哲学与信念之间,或换句话说,介于哲学与维系全城的公民虔诚间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That is what you use to hit nails into the pieces of wood to hold them together.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

One of the first steps in that healing is that fibroblasts like this cell crawl into the space that's created by the wound and they grab a hold of both sides of the wound and contract and try to pull it together.

愈合的第一步是,成纤维细胞向,损伤的创口爬行,紧紧地抓住创口的两侧,通过收缩回拉 试着使创口合拢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Severe breaks may require an operation to hold the bone together with metal plates and screws.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Mr.Obama and Mr.Hatoyama plan to hold a press conference together when he arrives Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

four-man bobsled driver. "I'm just elated." "And I can't tell you how proud I am of Holcomb and the gang and for Steve to pull it together and hold it together in just his second Olympic Games.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

, I came to the mujahadeen and I told them everything and we arranged together this attack to make the Americans understand that the belief of Allah, that eman which we hold, the fatwah that we strive for cannot be exchanged for all the wealth in the world."

VOA: standard.2010.01.09