hold it together

基本解釋

Can Merkel hold it together?
默克爾抓得住嗎？
As far as hangovers go, Tiernan says, "Most chefs I know are pretty resilient creatures and hold it together on the outside even if they're dying inside.
宿醉的頭疼過后，蒂爾南說：“我認識的大部分廚師擁有不錯的適應能力和堅強的毅力，哪怕他們內(nèi)心脆弱的要死?！?/li>
If they can hold it together and stop the usual infighting that has plagued many of their campaigns, it may just provide the platform for Arsenal's Robin van Persie to shine.
如果他們能夠團結一致，抑制住往屆比賽中如同瘟疫一般糾纏著他們的暗斗，那么就可能為阿森納的羅賓范佩西提供表演的舞臺。

four-man bobsled driver. "I'm just elated." "And I can't tell you how proud I am of Holcomb and the gang and for Steve to pull it together and hold it together in just his second Olympic Games.
What kind of a friendship are these bonds of affection that he says hold the city ? together and that make it a regime?
這些感情關系屬于何種友情,能像他所言,能將整座城市團結起來并形塑出一個政體？
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There is a necessary and inevitable tension between philosophy and belief or to put it another way between philosophy and the civic pieties that hold the city together.
所以緊張關系必然,且無可避免地存在于哲學與信念之間,或換句話說,介于哲學與維系全城的公民虔誠間。
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But the things that divide the party are minuscule compared to the things that hold it together.
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