定期支付的扶養費
把「維持在原本的水準」換算成錢：離婚之後，定期支付讓孩子或前配偶的生活維持下去。
alimony/child support · noun · B2
Money paid regularly to support a child or a former husband or wife after a marriage ends.
贍養費／扶養費
核心畫面
One way to hold it: the work you do so that nothing changes for the worse. Oil the machine, check the brakes, repaint the — none of it makes anything new, it just holds the thing at the level it is already at. English then applies that holding to a situation, and to the regular money that keeps a family supported.
可以想成為了「讓東西不要變差」而做的那些事：上油、檢查煞車、把欄杆重新漆過——都沒有造出新東西，只是把它維持在原本的…更多收起
可以想成為了「讓東西不要變差」而做的那些事：上油、檢查煞車、把欄杆重新漆過——都沒有造出新東西，只是把它維持在原本的水準。英文接著把這個「維持住不變」的動作用在狀態上，也用在婚姻結束後為了維持生活而定期支付的錢上。From the picture
Also in this word
upkeep/repair · noun · B2
The work of fixing, cleaning, and checking something so it stays in good condition.
維護／保養
keeping the same · noun · B2
The act of making a state or situation stay the same over time.
維持
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
maintenancenoun/ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/
- 1
Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- They are all preventable by proper maintenance, but non-safety critical maintenance has to be evaluated, so failures are an accepted penalty for keeping maintenance costs down.
- 2
lawA tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
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lawAlimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
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lawChild support.
- 5
Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- From Pond to Pond he roamed, from moor to moor; / Housing, with God's good help, by choice or chance: / And in this way he gained an honest maintenance.
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biologynatural-sciencesThe natural process which keeps an organism alive.
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computingengineeringmathematicsSoftware updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
- a maintenance release; a maintenance version
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。