She had to hold him back as he tried to break for the door.

他试图向门口逃去，她只好拉住他。

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He was so impatient that I could hardly hold him back.

他是那样急躁，我简直拉他不住。

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A little thing like winter isn't going to hold him back!

像冬天的一个小东西是不会抱他回来！

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He gave Smiley a look that said he was sorry for fighting a dog that did not have any back legs for him to hold, which he needed to win a fight.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

His son Jared has Cerebral Palsy and does not let that hold him back.

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The conservatives, backed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, hold him back.

ECONOMIST: Iran

But I don't think anybody feels that that's going to hold him back at all nor should it.

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