hold it together

基本解释

Can Merkel hold it together?
默克尔抓得住吗？
As far as hangovers go, Tiernan says, "Most chefs I know are pretty resilient creatures and hold it together on the outside even if they're dying inside.
宿醉的头疼过后，蒂尔南说：“我认识的大部分厨师拥有不错的适应能力和坚强的毅力，哪怕他们内心脆弱的要死。”
If they can hold it together and stop the usual infighting that has plagued many of their campaigns, it may just provide the platform for Arsenal's Robin van Persie to shine.
如果他们能够团结一致，抑制住往届比赛中如同瘟疫一般纠缠着他们的暗斗，那么就可能为阿森纳的罗宾范佩西提供表演的舞台。

four-man bobsled driver. "I'm just elated." "And I can't tell you how proud I am of Holcomb and the gang and for Steve to pull it together and hold it together in just his second Olympic Games.
What kind of a friendship are these bonds of affection that he says hold the city ? together and that make it a regime?
这些感情关系属于何种友情,能像他所言,能将整座城市团结起来并形塑出一个政体？
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There is a necessary and inevitable tension between philosophy and belief or to put it another way between philosophy and the civic pieties that hold the city together.
所以紧张关系必然,且无可避免地存在于哲学与信念之间,或换句话说,介于哲学与维系全城的公民虔诚间。
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But the things that divide the party are minuscule compared to the things that hold it together.
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