The old man thought he and his men could hold Harpers Ferry until slaves in the area rebelled and joined them.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Hold on a second until I comment this out, yes.

稍等一会,我把它注释掉，好了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We didn't know a great deal about certain authors until this period of the flourishing of philology in the very late nineteenth and early twentieth century took hold and pretty much created for us the archive that we now use today in a variety of ways.

有些作家的作品,直到19世纪末20世纪初的,语言学繁荣期才为人所知,这个时期也孕育了,我们今天用来研究的文本档案。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Their goal: hijack the ship and hold the crew hostage until the ship's owners paid for their release.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Jackson decided to attack, to hold them there until Lee arrived with help.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

They could hold him until the crew released the captured Somali.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

They would hold the gold until demand greatly increased the price.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The accounts are believed to hold as much as $18 billion in undeclared assets that until now were hidden from U.S.taxes.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

He said Gates will hold the new troop request until the strategy review is completed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Washington says,while it will hold dialogue with Burma, the sanctions will remain in place until there are signs of real democratic change in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"Once he has it, he intends to hold on to it until such time as the president and his national security team are ready to consider it."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Blake says the Obama administration held off on engaging India in a major way until the completion of elections in May that strengthened the hold on power by Prime Minister Singh's ruling Congress party.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17