onhold

词形变化

onheld onholds 三单 onholds onholding 现在分词 onheld 过去式 onheld 过去分词 onholden 过去式 onholden 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To hold on (to).

    罕用 及物

    Because of economic downturn, I onhold my dream first and use my lovely office's notebook IBM Thinkpad T60P as my best friend.

  2. 2.

    To hold on.

    不及物 罕用

    Resolved, That the Minutes of the Meeting of the Secondary Committee onheld 8 July, 1918, be and they are hereby confirmed.

词源

From Middle English anhealden (“to retain”), from Old English onhealdan, anhealdan (“to hold, keep”), equivalent to on- + hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian anhoolde (“to stop, persist”), West Frisian oanhâlde (“to apprehend, arrest, detain”), Dutch aanhouden (“to persist, continue, retain”) and onthouden (“to withhold, retain”), German anhalten (“to stop, last, persist”) and enthalten (“to contain, include”).

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