maintenance
n. 维护, 保持, 维修, 生活费用, 坚持, 扶养 [计] 维护; 维修
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教材释义与例句
维护，维修；保持；生活费用
释义与例句
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Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
保养
维持
保守
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A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
助讼
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Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
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Child support.
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Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
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The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
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Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
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Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
定语 不可数 计算机 工程 数学a maintenance release; a maintenance version
词汇关系
同义词 6
上位词 10
下位词 3
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词源
From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenēre (“to hold in the hand”). By surface analysis, maintain + -ance. Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence is spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.
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