| 词汇 | maintain |
| 释义 | maintain verb► maintain your low tonesdo not raise your voice at me. A phrase coined by writers of the 'Coneheads' skits on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s, featuring three Remulakian aliens who lived quiet and normal lives in the suburbs of New Jersey. Most of the Remulakian phrases were too forced for everyday slang, such as 'molten lactate extract of hooved animals' for 'melted cheese', but a few such as this were temporarily in vogue US, 1977maintain (oneself or someone) in (something)To allow oneself or someone to live a particular lifestyle. Unfortunately, we don't have enough money to maintain ourselves in this lavish manse anymore. maintain (something) at (something)To keep something at a particular setting or level. I try to maintain my savings at $1,000, at least, in case of emergencies. maintain someone in somethingto keep or provide for someone in a certain style or condition. I insist that you maintain me in the style to which I have become accustomed. He had hoped to maintain himself in comfort. maintain something at somethingto keep something at a certain level, setting, degree, amount, etc. You must maintain the temperature at 30 degrees Celsius. We have to maintain the temperature at a very high level. |
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