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1. Jim has not held down a job for more than a year.
没有一份工作吉姆能保住一年。
2. We must hold down prices.
我们必须抑制物价。
1. 抑制：解决慢收敛问题的另一个技术使用了抑制(hold down)法. 抑制法迫使参与协议工作的路由器,在收到关于某网络不可达的信息后的一段固定时间内,忽略任何关于该网络的路由信息. 这段抑制时间的典型长度是60秒.
2. 压制;抑制(热情等)：hold back 踌躇,退缩不前,阻止 | hold down 压制;抑制(热情等) | hold in 约束,抑制
3. 制止;控制;缩减：hand down 递给;传递下来;世代相传 | hold down 制止;控制;缩减 | put down 写下;记下;镇压;放下
4. 控制：227 hold back 踌躇,退缩,阻止 | 228 hold down 控制 | 229 hold on to 紧紧抓住,坚持
1. 保住（工作或位置）
If you hold down a job or a place in a team, you manage to keep it.
e.g. He never could hold down a job...
他从来都保不住自己的工作。
e.g. Constant injury problems had made it tough for him to hold down a regular first team place.
持续伤病使得他很难保住在球队的常规主力位置。
2. 压制;限制
If you hold someone down, you keep them under control and do not allow them to have much freedom or power or many rights.
e.g. Everyone thinks there is some vast conspiracy wanting to hold down the younger generation.
大家都认为有一个想压制年轻一代的大阴谋。
1. The room is made like a bus carriage and visitors can hold a handle hanging down from the roof when the simulated quake begins.
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2. When you hold up a real bill, the metal line down the center is continuous.
3. The officer put up with it in order to hold off the woman's charge, but later broke down in tears.
4. The two combined to hold down the top spot in the standings for the entire 26 weeks before the Chase for the championship started.
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5. Click on the second chime to the right, and hold it down.
6. It is simply reprehensible to hold down one section of the citizenry so that another can enjoy more rights and government management will be easier.
7. NHK said it is not clear whether he will agree to step down next month or try to hold on longer.
8. Before being ordered to close down last year, the villa was a luxury venue where the rich would hold private parties.
9. The only way to stay in business is to hold down the cost of ingredients.
10. But justice demands that those who want to hold talks with us shut down their nuclear fuel cycle program too.
verb
1. restrain
e.g. please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep
2. keep
e.g. She manages to hold down two jobs