maintaining
present participle ofmaintain
| 单词 | maintaining |
| 释义 | maintaining present participle ofmaintain maintain verb[T] uk/meɪnˈteɪn/us/meɪnˈteɪn/maintainverb[T](CONTINUE TO HAVE)B2 tocontinueto have; tokeepinexistence, or notallowtobecomeless: Thearmyhas beenbroughtin to maintainorderin theregion. We havestandardsto maintain. Despitelivingin differentcountries, the twofamilieshave maintainedcloselinks. Thefilmhas maintaineditspositionas thecritics'favouritefor anotheryear.
Keeping and storing things
maintainverb[T](KEEP IN GOOD CONDITION)B2 tokeeparoad,machine,building, etc. in goodcondition: Alargehousecostsa lot to maintain. Theroadsin thetownhave been verypoorlymaintained. Preserving and saving
maintainverb[T](EXPRESS)C2 toexpressfirmlyyourbeliefthat something istrue: Throughout hisprisonsentence, Dunn has always maintained hisinnocence. [+ that]He maintainsthathe has neverseenthe woman before. to say something
according to the newspapers, records, etc.
Assertions & asserting
maintainverb[T](PROVIDE)toprovidesomeone withfoodand whatever isnecessaryfor them toliveon: Theybarelyearnenough to maintain themselves andtheirfourchildren. Giving, providing and supplying
Examplesofmaintainingmaintaining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is interesting to note that the concept of natural selection as the sole force inmaintainingpolymorphisms went virtually unquestioned 15 years ago. From theCambridge English Corpus Despite its prevalence, many young two-year-olds are uncertain about their mapping preference and thus not very committed tomaintainingit. From theCambridge English Corpus Raising, or at leastmaintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is a perpetual battle, and turnover within the population is constant. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly, difficulties inmaintainingattention to the task cannot account for the differences in success of inhibition. From theCambridge English Corpus At the same time he emphasised the necessity ofmaintaininghistorical continuity as an ontological basis for society and as a creative source for architecture. From theCambridge English Corpus The goals ofmaintainingindependence and delaying functional decline in long-term care are poorly understood and inadequately researched. From theCambridge English Corpus Problems exist not only withmaintainingcurrency of information with respect to performance standards, but also in communicating connection to contemporar y ideas. From theCambridge English Corpus This was unplanned and came in response to a growing problem ofmaintainingthe standards of the critical 'experiential learning' components of the programme. From theCambridge English Corpus Maintainingdual residences (with the help of relatives and friends) enables the group to maximise their social and family contacts and quality of life. From theCambridge English Corpus The linear equality constraints can be readily used to reduce the total number of differential equations, whilemaintaininga set of ordinary differential equations. From theCambridge English Corpus Thanks are due to all the nurses formaintainingthe study and assisting the families involved throughout the study. From theCambridge English Corpus Maintainingthe balance between these two extremes is one of the most challenging tasks for a designer of controllers for local musical networks. From theCambridge English Corpus These data no not suggest the exchange of vessels for the purpose of constructing andmaintainingalliances. From theCambridge English Corpus These hakims leaned on the court formaintainingtheir monopoly over medical knowledge. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, in a remarkable example of convergent evolution, different organisms have evolved different strategies formaintainingsuperhelical homeostasis commensurate with their particular physiologies. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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