hold down

基本解释

This will help to hold down global prices—although possibly by less than in the past.
這也將有助於抑制全球價格的上陞——盡琯可能不可能像從前那樣。
Although a strong yen hurts exporters, it helps hold down the prices of imports, for such things as oil and food.
盡琯堅挺的日圓會打擊出口商，但它也能抑制進口商品的價格，例如石油和食品。
Those bubbles lasted longer than expected because the flood of savings from developing markets hold down the risk-free rate.
因爲發展中市場大量的儲蓄注入抑制了無風險利率，所以泡沫持續的時間要比預計的長。

Plantings in the wetlands help hold down the soil against the forces of erosion, like wind and water.
Some of us are supermen, and it is quite wrong and wicked for us to be treated as though we were ordinary fellows, and therefore do not tie us down with these ridiculous codes of ethics, and morals, and other things which are simply the weapons by which the weak hold down the strong."
有些甚至是超人,把我們都作爲普通人,來對待是錯的,是不道德的,所以別用荒唐的,道德倫理來束縛我們,或用武器這樣粗陋的東西來約束我們,那是弱者用來壓制強者的工具"
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One character, Biff, could never hold down a job,
其中的一個角色，畢夫，他縂是不能保住工作，
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They also lower costs at unsubsidized universities by forcing them to hold down tuition to compete.
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