uphold是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 支持; 赞成; 确认，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I always say so and uphold it, because even if your surface mind be a little affected (of course you will not feel angry with me for talking so I am speaking from a higher point of view) yet your real mind is far better than all theirs put together.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jove, moreover, has vouch-safed you to wield the sceptre and to uphold righteousness, that you may take thought for your people under you; there-fore it behooves you above all others both to speak and to give ear, and to out the counsel of another who shall have been minded to speak wisely.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it, that it quickly raised her, even from that shock.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- 'Uncas, look for the marks of a shoe that is long enough to uphold six feet two of tottering human flesh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was not aware of it myself, but I felt it necessary to uphold theinstitutions of my county, and to evince a familiarity with them; soI shook my head, as much as to say, 'I believe you!'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew that to uphold this dignity, they must ignore what she said, even if she stood in the nextroom and almost shouted.
-- Whyshould I fight to uphold the system that cast me out?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So I find that I must have a partner who is a man of business and not guilty of any inventions,' said Daniel Doyce, taking off his hat to pass his hand over his forehead, 'if it's only in deference to the current opinion, and to uphold the credit of the Works.
-- 'But it is well for a man to respect his own vocation, whatever it is; and to think himself bound to uphold it, and to claim for it the respect it deserves; is it not?'
-- It has become a hum not infrequent custom for my ha personal admirers personal admirers solely to be pleased to express their desire to acknowledge my semi-official position here, by offering ha little tributes, which usually take the form of ha voluntary recognitions of my humble endeavours to hum to uphold a Tone here a Tone I beg it to be understood that I do not consider myself compromised.
-- Thou wilt uphold her here to her last hour.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not speak, but she did 'hold on', and the warm grasp of the friendly human hand comforted her sore heart, and seemed to lead her nearer to the Divine arm which alone could uphold her in her trouble.
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