hold down
- v. 控制，限制，压低（使数量、程度、价格、开支等保持在较低水平或一定限度内）；按住，压住；保住，维持（工作、职位、地位等）；压制，控制（某人或某群体）；照看，代管（固定搭配 hold down the fort）
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
hold down ( holding, held, holds )
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PHRASAL VERB If you hold down a job or a place on a team, you manage to keep it. 保住 (工作或地位)
例：He never could hold down a job.
他从来就保不住自己的工作。
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PHRASAL VERB If you hold someone down, you keep them under control and do not allow them to have much freedom or power or many rights. 压制
例：Everyone thinks there is some vast conspiracy wanting to hold down the younger generation.
人人都认为有个要压制年轻一代的大阴谋。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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He never could hold down a job.
他从来就保不住自己的工作。
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He was unable to hold down a job after his breakdown.
他精神崩溃以后就没能保住工作。
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Plantings in the wetlands help hold down the soil against the forces of erosion, like wind and water.
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Some of us are supermen, and it is quite wrong and wicked for us to be treated as though we were ordinary fellows, and therefore do not tie us down with these ridiculous codes of ethics, and morals, and other things which are simply the weapons by which the weak hold down the strong."
有些甚至是超人,把我们都作为普通人,来对待是错的,是不道德的,所以别用荒唐的,道德伦理来束缚我们,或用武器这样粗陋的东西来约束我们,那是弱者用来压制强者的工具"
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One character, Biff, could never hold down a job,
其中的一个角色，毕夫，他总是不能保住工作，
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