hold by

基本解释

We must hold by the objective laws to do anything.
做任何事都要遵循客观规律。
McCain said today he was driven to put the campaign on hold by the thus-far fruitless congressional debate on President Bush's proposed rescue plan.
麦凯恩今天表示他不得不暂停竞选是由于迄今为止国会就布什总统提议的救援计划毫无辩论结果。
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If you can’t reach the hold by your own power, use someone else?s, or the rope.
如果你自己不能抓到目标点，可以使用一些帮助，比如绳子。

On Tuesday,the United States will hold congressional and state elections in a year defined by voter dissatisfaction.
Because I could've built that in, it says if you change the value of this thing, by the way you need to change recompute those other values in order to make this hold up.
我想要大家通过定义好的方法，来改变实例的值了,因为我可以把这个功能，内置到方法里面去,它的意思就是如果,你改变一个值。
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So in Joshua 23:7-8: ; "Do not utter the names of their gods or swear by them; do not serve them or bow down to them, but hold fast to the Lord your God as you have done this day."
在《约书亚书》23章7到8节中：,他们的神，你们不可提他的名，不可指着他起誓;,也不可事奉，叩拜，只要照着你们到今日所行的，专靠耶和华你们的神“
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They also, according to Hans Elwing of the University of Gothenburg, prevent barnacle colonies from taking hold by stunting their growth.
ECONOMIST: Monitor: Reducing the barnacle bill