The chair is so rickety that it will not hold together much longer.

这把椅子东倒西歪的，要不了多久就要散架了。

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Now, the spring of my hometown was in the sky of a foreign place, only give me long gone childhood memories, but also could not hold together with sorrow.

现在，故乡的春天又在这异地的空中了，既给我久经逝去的儿时的回忆，而一并也带着无可把握的悲哀。

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Physicists are pretty confident dark matter exists. Astronomical observations first made in the 1930s show there is not nearly enough ordinary matter to hold galaxies together as they spin round.

其实，物理学家对暗物质的存在确信无疑，最早上世纪30年代做的天文观察就显示出要保持时刻运转的星系稳定聚集在一起远非一般性物质所能；换句话说，一个星系的可见部分一定是牢牢嵌在一种不可见的光晕上的；否则，它就会在运转过程中四分五散。

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But they had fear that even a new president could not hold the nation together.

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His narrative may not quite hold together, but it has very good bits.

ECONOMIST: A history of Christianity

But Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland have kept it smart and irony-free -- there isn't a trace of condescension in their evocation of working people trying to hold it together, if not get ahead, or in their concentration on familiar, even timeless themes.

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Providing he can hold his party together and ensure this vote is not seen as a referendum on him - both big ifs - Scotland's First Minister may consider more powers a pretty good consolation prize.

BBC: David Cameron, Alex Salmond and Scotland's referendum