Although Fauquier Hospital is non-profit, it relies on earnings over and above operating costs to maintain its facilities.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Let's hang on for a little while longer to a set of conditions where we will maintain constant entropy, namely constant entropy and pressure.

我们先继续考虑,保持熵不变的情况，即保持熵和压强不变。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"It'll be a critical summit, from the point of keeping the EU together,keeping consensus that the EU should maintain leadership on this issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

Now in this particular case, these animals will not overeat on the healthy balanced food and won't gain excess weight, they'll maintain a normal weight.

在这种情况下,它们并不会吃过量的健康食品,因此不会变胖,所以一直保持着标准的体重

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"I call on the United Nations to provide support, for the civilized nations of the world to maintain a firm position against barbarity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But on Tuesday, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell called on those countries to maintain the higher troop levels beyond the August 20 election day.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

All of our texts that we will read--the Republic the Politics the Prince the Social Contract have different views on the qualities of statecraft and what are those qualities necessary to found and maintain states that we will be considering.

我们所有将阅读的教材中，包括《理想国》,《政治论》，《君主论》，《民约论》,都有不同的权术特性观点,哪些特性是建立及维持国家所必需,我们都将加以思量。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Ambassador Hill said the U.S.commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno,is working with the Baghdad government and the Kurdish regional government on steps to maintain stability in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The DPJ is expected to maintain a firm policy line on North Korea, especially on the issues of the North's nuclear weapons programs and Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

While there is advice aplenty on how to lose pounds or kilograms, a new study focuses on middle aged and older women who maintain normal body weight, or BMI (Body Mass Index) and do not diet.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

The election commission also said it hinged its decision on skepticism that any democratic vote could take place in the midst of the region's current political crisis as Somaliland President Dahir Riyale attempts to maintain his grip on power.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"In order for us to keep our home land safe, in order to maintain our way of life, in order to ensure order on the international scene, then we cannot allow vicious killers to have their way,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.24