upholds

英 [ʌpˈhəʊldz]

美 [ʌpˈhoʊldz]

v.  支持，维护(正义等); 维持，确认(原判、裁决等)
uphold的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 拥护；支持；维护
  If youupholdsomething such as a law, a principle, or a decision, you support and maintain it.
  1. Our policy has been to uphold the law...
     拥护法律是我们一贯的方针。
  2. It is the responsibility of every government to uphold certain basic principles.
     各政府均有责任拥护某些基本原则。
  3. ...upholding the artist's right to creative freedom.
     维护艺术家的创作自由
• VERB 维持，坚持（原判）
  If a court of lawupholdsa legal decision that has already been made, it decides that it was the correct decision.
  1. The crown court, however, upheld the magistrate's decision.
     然而，最高法院维持了地方法院的判决。

双语例句

• And it must be resolved in a way that upholds both our laws and our highest ideals.
  我们必须以一种既捍卫我们的法律又维护我们的最高理念的方式予以解决。
• To think that such a practice upholds Party leadership can only produce results opposite to those intended.
  如果把这类东西看作是坚持党的领导，其结果，只能走向事情的反面。
• He is the unsurpassed great teacher, who protects Dharma well, who well upholds the precepts.
  他是一个无比伟大的教师，他非常好的保护了佛法，他很好的持守戒律。
• If you begin to lose heart in the work you are doing, God's grace upholds you and gives you the love for God and His people you require in order to continue.
  如果你正为自己的事奉灰心失望，神的恩典会支持你，加添你对他的爱和对他百姓的爱，好叫你能继续手上的工。
• For instance, the Literature Study Society upholds the political ideas of the organizing form of societies and sects;
  比如，文学研究会：社与会组织形态的政治理念；
• China is a country for peace, who loves, safeguards and upholds peace.
  中国是一个爱好和平、坚守和平、维护和平的和平国家。
• But in winter my family always upholds an old Italian tradition.
  但在冬天，我的家人总是保持着一个古老的意大利传统。
• To put it more accurately, I belong to the faction that believes in seeking truth from facts, the faction that pursues the policies of reform and opening to the outside world and that upholds leadership by the Party and follows the socialist road.
  比较实际地说，我是实事求是派，坚持改革、开放政策，坚持党的领导和社会主义道路。
• But if a person who upholds the four cardinal principles is a conservative, then I am a conservative.
  如果要说坚持四项基本原则是保守派，我又是保守派。
• Thirdly, hard-line policy of Iran upholds the necessity and possibility of success.
  再次，伊朗的核强硬政策有坚持的必要性和成功的可能性。