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

• 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。
• The coordination theory upholds that theories with more coordination force are likely to bear more truth.
  协调论认为，协调力大的理论具有更大的真理性。
• 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。
• Being concerned with the people, humanistic psychologists upholds the dignity and value of the people and focus on individual psychology.
  人本主义心理学主张以人为本，强调人的价值和尊严，注重个体心理特点的研究。
• 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。
• Due to dual effects on global free trade of regional economy integration, the Multilater trade system upholds the principle of both allowing and curbing.
  由于国际区域经济一体化对全球贸易公平自由化发展具有双重效应，为此多边贸易体制对国际区域经济一体化坚持“既许可又规范约束”的原则。
• The practice of regional autonomy not only ensures the rights of the ethnic minorities to exercise autonomy as masters of their homelands, but also upholds the unification of the state.
  实行民族区域自治，既保障了少数民族当家作主的自治权利，又维护了国家的统一；
• 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。
• The state protects the lawful rights and interests of the minority nationalities and upholds and develops a relationship of equality, unity and mutual assistance among all of china's nationalities.
  国家保障各少数民族的合法的权利和利益，维护和发展各民族的平等、团结、互助关系。
• 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。