The 3, 000 British and Afghan troops involved in the five-week operation are now trying to hold the ground seized during the offensive.

总共有3000个英国和阿富汗士兵参加了这个为期5天的行动(豹爪行动)，他们试图在进攻之中稳守着自己的阵地。

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In one respect, it is to hold the ground we have already won, for this ground is our strategic point of departure and its loss would mean the end of everything.

一方面是在保持自己已经取得的阵地。这是我们的战略出发地，丧失了这个阵地就一切无从说起了。

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The teaching of Chinese reading is the main position of Chinese language education, teaching it with individuality is the first strategy to hold the ground, because reading itself is individualizing.

语文阅读教学是语文教育的主阵地，其坚守的战略当首选个性化阅读教学，因为阅读是个性化的。

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This huge warrior threw me to the ground and then took hold of my arm again to pick me up.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

One of them took hold of my arm. He shook me and lifted me off the ground.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

It's absolutely futile if you take the ground at considerable cost... then actually just withdraw because you haven't got the manpower to hold the ground.

BBC: Deaths not halting success - PM

Surely, serious obstacles remain to having the Annan plan take hold on the ground.

CNN: The only glimmer of hope for Syria

It was the nearside that proved to hold the fastest ground and Spanish Don emerged from the pack as jockey Leo Keniry conjured a late surge to steal the win.

BBC: Attraction back on top