hold on to something

基本解釋

If you’re having trouble deciding when to hold on to something and when to let it go, try doing things backward.
如果你在煩惱什么時(shí)候去擁有一些東西和什么時(shí)候放手，試著考慮做事情的結(jié)果。
But Dunham and his wife, Nancy, still managed to hold on to something deeply important to them — and to millions of other older Americans.
盡管如此，鄧納姆和他的妻子南希仍然設(shè)法抓住了對(duì)他們、甚至對(duì)上百萬(wàn)美國(guó)老年人來(lái)說(shuō)深為重要的東西。
If you're having trouble deciding when to hold on to something and when to let it go, try doing things backward. Learn to add responsibly instead of subtracting.
如果你在煩惱什么時(shí)候去擁有一些東西和什么時(shí)候放手，試著考慮做事情的結(jié)果。學(xué)會(huì)負(fù)負(fù)責(zé)任地使用加法并取代減法。

God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."
上帝是如此害怕我們,都開(kāi)始懷疑自己能否駕馭自己的帝國(guó)了，他維系這個(gè)帝國(guó),靠的是運(yùn)氣或者是強(qiáng)大的火力，絕非是靠什么偉大的無(wú)所不能的神力“
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.
一個(gè)你可以依靠的支點(diǎn)：,一個(gè)不同尋常的想法，一個(gè)思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不過(guò)我認(rèn)為任何比喻都不夠貼切。
普林斯頓公開(kāi)課 - 人性課程節(jié)選

Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York says it would help if the government-sponsored agencies were allowed to hold more mortgages on their books, something the Bush administration has been reluctant to permit.
NPR: Adjustable-Rate Mortgages Fuel Foreclosure Crisis
As the picture goes along, you actually start to wish it were a little squarer, that the filmmakers would give you something more to hold on to than the grinding pulp momentum that substitutes here for true dramatic structure.
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