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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。”
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• To put it more accurately, I belong to the faction that believes in seeking truth from facts, the faction that pursues the policies of reform and opening to the outside world and that upholds leadership by the Party and follows the socialist road.
  比较实际地说，我是实事求是派，坚持改革、开放政策，坚持党的领导和社会主义道路。
• The social action of the law is fingering has the effect that upholds the human relations in society that is helpful for certain class and social order.
  法的社会作用是指法具有维护有利于一定阶级的社会关系和社会秩序的作用。
• 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。
• China values friendship and also sticks to principles. It firmly upholds its national core interests.
  中国讲友好，也讲原则，坚定不移地维护国家的核心利益。