hold on to something

基本解释

If you’re having trouble deciding when to hold on to something and when to let it go, try doing things backward.
如果你在烦恼什么时候去拥有一些东西和什么时候放手，试着考虑做事情的结果。
But Dunham and his wife, Nancy, still managed to hold on to something deeply important to them — and to millions of other older Americans.
尽管如此，邓纳姆和他的妻子南希仍然设法抓住了对他们、甚至对上百万美国老年人来说深为重要的东西。
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.
如果你在烦恼什么时候去拥有一些东西和什么时候放手，试着考虑做事情的结果。学会负负责任地使用加法并取代减法。

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."
上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选
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.
一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。
普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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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