1.保住，守住（有利因素）
If youhold on to something that gives you an advantage, you succeed in keeping it for yourself, and prevent it from being taken away or given to someone else.

hold on to的近义词

e.g. Jane is determinedtoholdonto her fortune...
简决心要守住自己的财产。
e.g. Firms are now keentoholdonto the people they recruit.
各公司现在都急切地想要留住招聘来的员工。

2.（过长时间地）保存，保留
If youhold on to something, you keep it for a longer time than would normally be expected.

e.g. Do you think you couldholdonto that report for the next day or two?...
你能把那篇报道多留一两天再登吗？
e.g. Peoplehold onto letters for years and years.
人们会将信件保存很多很多年。

3.坚持（信仰、信念、原则等）
If youhold on to your beliefs, ideas, or principles, you continue to believe in them and do not change or abandon them if others try to influence you or if circumstances cause you to doubt them.

e.g. He was imprisoned for 19 years yet heldonto his belief in his people.
他在监狱里被关了19年，但依然对人民充满信心。

1. 紧紧抓住,坚持：hold back踌躇,退缩;阻止,抑制 |holdonto紧紧抓住,坚持 |holdon继续,握住不放

2. 紧紧抓住;控制,克制：holdon 握住不放;坚持下去 |holdonto 紧紧抓住;控制,克制 |holdoneself in 尽力不叫

3. 坚持：prenatal 出生以前的 |holdonto 坚持 | circulate about 在...附近流传

4. 抓牢：通向 leadto | 抓牢holdonto | 一打鸡蛋 a dozen eggs

He held on to my arm with a tenacious grip.

他紧紧抓住我的手臂不放。

The small child clung to its mother.

那小孩紧紧抓住母亲不放。

My father said that if we believe something was true, we should hold on to it.

父亲说如果我们相信某事是真的，就应该坚持。

Mr Smith told me to hold on to my oil shares.

史密斯先生叫我不要卖掉石油股票。

I'd hold on to that house for the time being; house prices are rising sharply at the moment.

目前我不能出让那所房子，此刻房价正在急剧上涨。

Jane is determined to hold on to her fortune.

简决心要守住自己的财产。

Firms are now keen to hold on to the people they recruit.

各公司现在都急切地想要留住招聘来的员工。

They determined to hold on to the last.

他们决定坚持到最后.

Do you think you could hold on to that report for the next day or two?

你能把那篇报道多留一两天再登吗？

I told him how we had fought to hold on to the company.

我给他讲了我们是如何极力争取保住公司的。

The aggressors must not be allowed to hold on to the territories of other countries.

不容许侵略者赖在别国的领土上.

Truisms are true, hold on to that!

自明便是真理, 这一点一定要坚持.

He has been trying hard to hold on to his temper.

他一直尽力控制自己不发脾气.

We must always hold on to the Marxist - Leninist principles.

我们必须永远坚持马克思主义 列宁主义 原则.

He had a hard time to hold on to himself.

他好不容易才控制住自己.

He hold on to my arm with a tenacious grip.

他紧紧抓住我的手臂不放.

A good man'll hold on to his job.

有本事的人是不肯离开自己岗位的.

The comet nucleus itself is too small to hold on to these gases through gravitation.

慧核本身太小,它的引力不足以束缚住这些气体.

When you're standing in the subway, you'd better hold on to the strap.

当你站在地下火车上时, 你最好抓住皮环.

He started having me hold on to his wedding ring whenever we took a plane trip.

每次我们要飞行他就要我拿着结婚戒指.