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

• My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.
  我心紧紧地跟随你，你的右手扶持我。
• 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。
• From the two aspects, this paper tries to conclude that Confucianism emphasizes ethic, while Daoism upholds individualism.
  本文从这两个方面加以论述，试图得出儒家注重社会伦理，道家崇尚个体人格的结论。
• When she said," the power of any military rests on the values it upholds. "
  她说，“所有的军事力量都是以它所支持的价值观为寄托的。”
• 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。
• The Constitution stipulates: "The state upholds the uniformity and dignity of the socialist legal system."
  宪法规定：“国家维护社会主义法制的统一和尊严。”
• 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 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。
• 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。
• If the court upholds the subpoena, it will issue an order enforcing it, and a violation of this order is punishable as contempt of court.
  如果法院确认传票的合法性，即发布命令执行该传票，而违反命令者将受到藐视法庭的处罚。