hold up

基本解释

If they worry that they will upset an important partner, I hold up another sign: ‘Blame it on Leonard’.
如果员工担心会得罪重要的合伙人，我就举起另一标牌：‘一切归咎于伦纳德’。
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If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master.
如果你做得好，你可以抬起你的头；但是相反，罪就是一个潜伏在门口的魔鬼：他极力蛊惑你，而你亦可以成为他的主人。
Or you can avoid all that and just observe giddy visitors pretend to "hold up" the tower in front of a camera on the ground floor.
或者你也可以避免这些，只是观看着这些头晕目眩的游客们，站在一层地面的照相机前面、假装着在“支撑”斜塔。

Sometimes you need a belt to hold up your pants.
If I were to hold up two pieces of paper, there's a sense in which they are participating in "Twohood."
如果我拿起两张纸,便有这样一层含义,即,这两张纸分有了二性
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You might hold up the photograph and I might say, "Gosh, that really doesn't look very much like Ruth does it?"
你拿起照片,我可能会说,这一点都不像露丝
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It then uses that data to predict how well cars on sale now will hold up.
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If you hold up your hand or something you have in your hand, you move it upward into a particular position and keep it there.
If one thing holds up another, it is placed under the other thing in order to support it and prevent it from falling.
To hold up a person or process means to make them late or delay them.
If someone holds up a place such as a bank or a shop, they point a weapon at someone there to make them give them money or valuable goods.
If you hold up something such as someone's behaviour, you make it known to other people, so that they can criticize or praise it.
If something such as a type of business holds up in difficult conditions, it stays in a reasonably good state.
If an argument or theory holds up, it is true or valid, even after close examination.
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