His ideas were held up to ridicule.

他的想法被当成了笑料。

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It has been apparent that in other areas standards have held up well.

显然在其他领域标准保持得良好。

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My bet is that they've been held up in traffic.

我估计他们是堵车了。

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It must give up Alsace-Lorraine, a part of France it had held for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

The infighting among the main parties has held up the main task with which parliament was entrusted - the writing of a new constitution for the country.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"So what you get may be cost, but what you give up may be the on-going relationship, the communication, the follow-up care, and things,traditionally, American patients have held very dear."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Leeds' Mark Viduka - one of eight British-based players in Frank Farina's starting line-up - held the ball up brilliantly before delivering an overhead pass into the path of the breaking Bresciano who volleyed home.

BBC: Australia 1-0 South Africa

OsComp Systems, a privately held start-up company based in Houston, Texas, wants to distribute natural gas the way that propane is distributed and has pioneered a compressor technology that it claims will allow it to do so.

FORBES: OsComp, Global Partners Pursue Virtual Pipelines for Natural Gas

It is suggested there have been discussions on increasing spending on projects in Conservative-held wards in the run-up to next May's local elections.

BBC: Ombudsman launches inquiry into Swansea council leaders