If that is the case, it may be possible that the moon could hold enough water for future explorations or even colonies.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

So we're allowing you to, for example, to hold the belief that it's equally likely that the goalie dives left or dives right.

所以,打个比方,这里也可以包括,门将扑向左右两路概率相同的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

You want to use "it is important to" to emphasize or to make note of something that you hold close.

你使用“it is important to”来强调或说明你认为很重要的事情。

It's important 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I don't think it's going to hold Toyota back or take anything away from their brand loyalty."

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Or perhaps it means because you're sick, you can't hold your job down.

或许它意味着因为你病了，所以无法工作。

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Does he hold it out as a real possibility ? or must it be considered a failure in some way or that if the dialogue does end in failure ? what can we learn from that?

他是否坚持真有可能性,或那必需被多少视为是一项失败,如果对话以失败结束,我们又能从中学到什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's - a suture or a stitch has to hold the wound closed so it has to have certain mechanical strength and imagine the problem of making something that's dissolvable so it disappears but also is strong enough to hold a wound closed reliably for a length of time.

能够拉紧切口的缝合线,就必须具有一定的机械张力,大家想像一下制造这种缝合线的难度,身体组织不仅要能吸收这种缝合线,而且这种线必须有足够的张力,一定时间内能够拉紧切口

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

There is a necessary and inevitable tension between philosophy and belief or to put it another way between philosophy and the civic pieties that hold the city together.

所以紧张关系必然,且无可避免地存在于哲学与信念之间,或换句话说,介于哲学与维系全城的公民虔诚间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Or you get a cold, the cold virus takes hold, the viruses start replicating inside of you and it takes some time for immune system to gear up to eliminate it, so we're used to thinking about responses that take some time.

或者你得了感冒,感冒病毒扎根在你的身体中,病毒开始在你体内复制,免疫系统需要一定时间做好准备去消灭它,所以我们曾认为免疫反应需要一定时间

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