I told him how we had fought to hold on to the company.

我告诉他我们是如何为保住公司而奋斗的。

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Unlike the day traders, they tended to hold on to stocks for days and weeks, sometimes even months.

和当日交易者不同，他们倾向于持股几天、几周有时甚至几个月。

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Even the government of Iran has been forced to utilize the very tool they attempted to squelch to try to hold on to power.

即使伊朗政府也被迫利用这个他们原本试图粉碎的工具来维持自己的权力。

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But the boat soon sank. Hundreds of passengers struggled to hold on to the floating wreckage.

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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Thank you. Hold on to that thought for second, I'm going to come back to it.

我再来回到问题上，并不是假定我在搜索。

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Suppose you're flush enough to hold on to your old house as an investment.

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Kraft has had to pay up to hold on to executives wooed by other teams.

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They want to hold on to it to link their territory to the east and west.

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