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retaining

/ɹɪˈteɪnɪŋ/ 形容词 C2

中文: 挡土的、保持的

  1. Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.
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Also because he is not sure of always retaining his situation, and wishes to provide for the future.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第859页 · C1
He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第107页 · B2
Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend’s connections than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retaining Mr.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第217页 · B2
He might claim the property from South America, establish his identity before the British authorities there and so obtain the fortune without ever coming to England at all, or he might adopt an elaborate disguise during the short time that he need be in London; or, again, he might furnish an accomplice with the proofs and papers, putting him in as heir, and retaining a claim upon some proportion of his income.
《The Hound of the Baskervilles》,第217页 · C1

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