retain

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英[rɪˈteɪn]
美[rɪˈteɪn]

基本释义

vt.
保持; 留在心中,记住; 雇用; 付定金保留

词性变化

实用例句

to retain your independence

保持独立

牛津词典

He struggled to retain control of the situation.

他曾努力保持对局势的控制。

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The house retains much of its original charm.

这所房子保留了许多原有的魅力。

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She retained her tennis title for the third year.

她第三年保住了网球冠军的头衔。

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a soil that retains moisture

保持水分的土壤

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This information is no longer retained within the computer's main memory.

这样的数据不再保留在计算机的主存储器中。

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(figurative)She has a good memory and finds it easy to retain facts.

她记忆力好,很容易记住事情。

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a retaining fee

给所委托律师的预付辩护费

牛津词典

to retain the services of a lawyer

聘定律师

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The interior of the shop still retains a nineteenth-century atmosphere...

这家商店的内部装修仍然保留着19世纪的风格。

He retains a deep respect for the profession...

他对这个职业仍然深怀敬意。

He decided to retain him for the trial.

他决定聘请他为出庭律师。

Thus owners can end up suffering dilution just to retain those who turn up every week.

因此到最后,所有者为了挽留那些每周才露一次面的人,只好忍受稀释之痛.

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Some of are enthusiastic at some time and other retain for a day or a week.

一些人时不时有点热情,少数人能够维持一天至一周的热情.

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It will retain the overall configuration of previous models.

它将保留之前那些模型的整体结构.

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This jug must have a crack somewhere because it doesn't retain water.

这个大杯子漏水,一定是哪里有裂缝.

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To retain freshness after initially opening the bottle, keep refrigerated and preferably use within 100 days.

首次开封后为保证鲜度, 请放于冰箱冷藏,100天内服用完.

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Personally, though I am not always, I retain the right to be miserable.

如果你看见我高兴, 那么我一定是因为你而在高兴.

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I will retain my right.

我将保留我的权力.

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U.S. Federal Reserve will retain several of the largest banking holding company supervision.

美联储将保留对数家最大型银行业控股公司的监管权.

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If you want to retain youthful vigor, you have to take regular exercise.

如果你想保持青春活力, 你就得经常锻炼.

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Yet it is a great comfort to us that we still retain friendship and mutual understanding.

幸友谊犹存,两心相通.

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In the United States most married women do not retain their maiden name.

在美国大部分结过婚的女人不会保留她们的娘家姓.

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真题例句

Apartments will retain their appeal for a while for Millennials, haunted by what happened to home-owning parents.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Recently I attended several meetings where we talked about ways to retain students and keep younger faculty members from going elsewhere.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

But inside, special windows cut power bills by blocking solar heat in summer and retaining indoor warmth in winter.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Apartments will retain their appeal for a while for millennials, haunted by what happened to home-owning parents.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Their babies retain the ability to produce their own chlorophyll, though they can't generate energy from sunlight until they've eaten enough algae to steal the necessary genes, which they can't yet produce on their own.

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The scientists are breeding successive generations to arrive at varieties that incorporate salt tolerance but retain about 97 percent of the European rice genome.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

The Labour party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition's spending plans if it returns to power.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Verb
  • 1. hold within;

    "This soil retains water"

    "I retain this drug for a long time"

  • 2. allow to remain in a place or position;

    "We cannot continue several servants any longer"

    "She retains a lawyer"

    "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"

    "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"

    "We kept the work going as long as we could"

  • 3. secure and keep for possible future use or application;

    "The landlord retained the security deposit"

    "I reserve the right to disagree"

  • 4. keep in one's mind;

    "I cannot retain so much information"

同义词辨析

keep, retain, reserve, preserve, conserve, withhold

这些动词均有"保持,保存"之意。

  • keep: 最常用词,指长时间牢固地保持或保存。
  • retain: 指继续保持。
  • reserve: 正式用词,指为了将来的用途或其他用途而保存、保留。
  • preserve: 主要指为防止损害、变质等而保存。
  • conserve: 一般指保存自然资源,保全人的精力、力量等。
  • withhold: 指扣住不放,暗示有阻碍。

同义词

反义词

vt.保留,保持

abandondiscard

其他释义

abandon

最新英语单词

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