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

• This may not be perfect, but it upholds the principles of open investment and offers several lessons.
  这可能并不完美，但它维护了开放投资原则，并提供了几条教训。
• To think that such a practice upholds Party leadership can only produce results opposite to those intended.
  如果把这类东西看作是坚持党的领导，其结果，只能走向事情的反面。
• 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。
• 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；
• If you begin to lose heart in the work you are doing, God's grace upholds you and gives you the love for God and His people you require in order to continue.
  如果你正为自己的事奉灰心失望，神的恩典会支持你，加添你对他的爱和对他百姓的爱，好叫你能继续手上的工。
• China is a country for peace, who loves, safeguards and upholds peace.
  中国是一个爱好和平、坚守和平、维护和平的和平国家。
• 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。
• If the court upholds the subpoena, it will issue an order enforcing it, and a violation of this order is punishable as contempt of court.
  如果法院确认传票的合法性，即发布命令执行该传票，而违反命令者将受到藐视法庭的处罚。
• 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。