maintains

常见例句

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• Food is necessary to maintain life.
  食物是维持生命所必需的。
• How much does it cost to maintain this house?
  维修这栋房子需要多少钱?
• The government maintains the law.
  政府维护法律。
• Be careful to maintain your reputation.
  要小心保持你的名誉。
• The two countries have maintained friendly relations for many years.
  两国多年来一直保持着友好的关系。
• They still maintain some distance from him.
  他们和他仍然保持着一定的距离。
• He has to maintain his wife and two children.
  他不得不养活妻子和两个孩子。
• Somehow he managed to maintain a son at the university.
  他设法供一个儿子上了大学。
• The machine is very simple to maintain.
  这机器保养起来很简便。
• The public order is well maintained.
  公共秩序维持得很好。
• In our country, universities and colleges are maintained by the state.
  在我国,大专院校是由国家办的。
• He was maintained by pride in his family.
  对家庭的自豪感支持着他。

S+～+that-clause

• He maintained that he was not to be blamed.
  他坚持说他不应该受到责怪。
• She maintains that the accusation is groundless.
  她坚持认为该指控是毫无根据的。

用作宾补动词: S+～+ n./pron. +to be adj.

• He maintained the policy to be wrong.
  他坚持认为这个政策是错误的。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

• It is absolutely vital that food supplies should be maintained.
  维持食物的供给是绝对必要的。
• They also help us to maintain the machinery.
  他们还帮助我们维修机器。
• They tell the peasants in detail how to maintain the pumps.
  他们详细地教给农民怎样保养抽水机。
• It is clearly illogical to maintain such a proposition.
  坚持这种主张显然是没有道理的。
• He maintains that there are no short cuts to effective management.
  他断言,有效的管理没有捷径可走。
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