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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Maintain \Main*tain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Maintained}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Maintaining}.] [OE. maintenen, F. maintenir,
   properly, to hold by the hand; main hand (L. manus) + F.
   tenir to hold (L. tenere). See {Manual}, and Tenable.]
   1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to
      support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer
      to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of
      heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to
      maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach;
      to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present
      reputation.

   2. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to
      surrender or relinquish.

            God values . . . every one as he maintains his post.
                                                  --Grew.

   3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

            Maintain talk with the duke.          --Shak.

   4. To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply
      with what is needed.

            Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life.
                                                  --Stirling.

            What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
                                                  --Franklin.

   5. To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

            It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to
            be maintained by it.                  --South.

   Syn: To assert; vindicate; allege. See {Assert}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

maintained
     adj 1: kept in good condition [syn: {kept up(p)}, {well-kept}]
     2: made ready for service [syn: {repaired}, {serviced}]
     3: continued in your keeping or use or memory; "in...the
        retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered" [syn: {retained}]