喜樂美語
  1. 1

    To support and keep something going — especially rules, laws, values, or promises — so it stays strong and isn't broken or ignored. Courts "uphold" decisions (agree they were correct and keep them standing); people "uphold" traditions, duties, or promises.

    維護、支持（法律、傳統、決定等）

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組成up (keeping something raised, standing) + hold (to keep, to not let go) — literally "hold something up" so it doesn't fall.

同家族的字

  • holduphold is built from up + hold — keeping something held up, standing

原始詞典資料4 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。

Upholdname

  • 1

    A surname.

upholdverb/ˌʌpˈhəʊld/

  • 1

    To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

    • The mournful train/ Echoed her grief, [...]/ With groans, and hands upheld, to move his mind, /Besought his pity to their helpless kind
  • 2

    To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling.

    • A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
    • That misbegotten devil, Falconbridge, /In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.
  • 3

    To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned).

    • let any moral come along and she would uphold it
    • but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.

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。