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

• Thirdly, hard-line policy of Iran upholds the necessity and possibility of success.
  再次，伊朗的核强硬政策有坚持的必要性和成功的可能性。
• 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。
• 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。
• The state protects the lawful rights and interests of the minority nationalities and upholds and develops a relationship of equality, unity and mutual assistance among all of china's nationalities.
  国家保障各少数民族的合法的权利和利益，维护和发展各民族的平等、团结、互助关系。
• 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。
• 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。
• The practice of regional autonomy not only ensures the rights of the ethnic minorities to exercise autonomy as masters of their homelands, but also upholds the unification of the state.
  实行民族区域自治，既保障了少数民族当家作主的自治权利，又维护了国家的统一；
• 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。
• For instance, the Literature Study Society upholds the political ideas of the organizing form of societies and sects;
  比如，文学研究会：社与会组织形态的政治理念；
• This may not be perfect, but it upholds the principles of open investment and offers several lessons.
  这可能并不完美，但它维护了开放投资原则，并提供了几条教训。