retain
英式音标：retain怎么读
美式音标：retain怎么读
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近义词： hold,save,preserve,keep,maintain
反义词： abandon,discard
retain词义
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vt. 保持；雇；记住
词态变化
第三人称单数: retains;过去式: retained;过去分词: retained;现在分词: retaining;
中文词源
retain 保留，保持
re-,向后，往回，-tain,保持，词源同 contain,tenure.
retain双语例句
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- 1. Daily facial exercises help her to retain the skin's elasticity.
- 每天做面部运动帮助她保持皮肤弹性。
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- 2. Disney will retain a 51 percent controlling interest in the venture.
- 迪斯尼将保留该项目51%的控股权。
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- 3. Vegetables should retain some firmness and should not be soggy and waterlogged.
- 蔬菜应保持一定的硬挺度，不应潮乎乎的浸透了水。
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- 4. He decided to retain him for the trial.
- 他决定聘请他为出庭律师。
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- 5. He is likely to retain the England captaincy.
- 他有望继续担任英格兰队队长。
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retain英文词源
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- retain (v.)
- late 14c., "hold back, restrain;" c. 1400, "continue keeping, keep possession of," from Old French retenir "keep, retain; take into feudal service; hold back; remember" (12c.), from Latin retinere "hold back, keep back, detain, restrain," from re- "back" (see re-) + tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Meaning "keep (another) attached to one's person, keep in service" is from mid-15c.; specifically of lawyers from 1540s. Meaning "keep in the mind" is from c. 1500. Related: Retained; retaining.
retain实用场景例句
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- to retain your independence
- 保持独立
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- 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
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- 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。
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- He retains a deep respect for the profession...
- 他对这个职业仍然深怀敬意。
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- He decided to retain him for the trial.
- 他决定聘请他为出庭律师。
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- 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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