单词 | hold on |
释义 | hold onhold on phrasal verbphr v a) spoken i. WAITto wait for a short time 等会儿 Hold on, I’ll just get my coat. 等一等,我去拿外衣。 ii. SURPRISEDused when you have just noticed, heard, or remembered something interesting or wrong 等一下,等等〔表示注意到、听到或记起令人感兴趣或不妥的事〕 Hold on a minute! Isn’t that your brother’s car over there? 等一下!那边不是你兄弟的车吗? iii. WAITused to ask someone on the telephone to wait until the person they want to talk to is available 别挂断电话 Can you hold on? I’ll try to find her. 请别挂好吗?我去找找她看。 b) to have your hands or arms tightly around something 紧紧抓住[抱住] Hold on tight! 抓紧了! to Hold on to my arm. 抓紧我的胳膊。 c) CONTINUE/NOT STOPto continue doing something that is very difficult to do 坚持下去 San Francisco held on to win 4–2. 旧金山队顽强拼搏,以4比2赢了比赛。 Examples from the Corpus hold on• Hold on - I haven't finished yet. hold to• She can walk now without holding on to anything.• This might enable them to hold on to around 100 of their present 270 seats.• Whitman won because she held on to conservatives.• To Marquand, MacDonald's real fault was that he held on to his nineteenth-century principles for too long.• He wasn't sure that he would be given a chance to hold on to his wife.• Still holding on to it, he nodded and went out to where the Audi was parked.• Once I picked it up, I just wanted to make sure I held on to it.• He could hold on to office even though so severely disabled as to be unable to lead.• These beautiful new books, filled with morals and happy endings, help us hold on to our storytelling heritage. → hold on at hold1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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