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

• 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。
• But if a person who upholds the four cardinal principles is a conservative, then I am a conservative.
  如果要说坚持四项基本原则是保守派，我又是保守派。
• For instance, the Literature Study Society upholds the political ideas of the organizing form of societies and sects;
  比如，文学研究会：社与会组织形态的政治理念；
• When she said," the power of any military rests on the values it upholds. "
  她说，“所有的军事力量都是以它所支持的价值观为寄托的。”
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.
  我心紧紧地跟随你，你的右手扶持我。
• It opposes imperialist oppression and upholds the dignity and independence of the Chinese nation.
  它是反对帝国主义压迫，主张中华民族的尊严和独立的。