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maintain
v.①维修，保养；②维持，保持；③坚持，主张，支持
【例 1】 Practice (or review) tends to build and maintain (②) memory for a taskor for any learned material.【译】 实践(或称复习)就是建立并保持对某一任务或所学材料的记忆。【例 2】 George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University,maintains (③) that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medicalpurpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug tohasten death.【译】 波士顿大学健康法律系主任乔治·
安纳斯坚持认为，只要医生是出于合理的医疗目的开药，那么即使服用此药会加速病人的死亡，医生的行为也没有违法。
model
n.①样式，型；②模范，典型；③模型；④原型，模特；v.(on，after)模仿，构造
【例 1】 Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the worldhave upended the old economic models (n.①) that were based upon the historicallink between growth and inflation.【译】 一些经济学家认为，旧的经济模式是建立在经济增长和通货膨胀历史联系的基础上的，而世界结构的巨大改变可能已使这套模式不再适用了。【例 2】 What they found, in attempting to model (v.) thought, is that thehuman brain’s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented —and human perception far more complicated — than previously imagined.【译】 在试图模仿人类思维的过程中，研究人员发现，人类大脑中的近 1000 亿个神经细胞要比以前想像的更聪明，人类的感觉器官也比以前想像的更复杂。