1. VERB 拿著;握住;托住 When you hold something, you carry or support it, using your hands or your arms.
Hold the knife at an angle...
斜握住刀。
She is holding her journal and a pen...
她手裏拿著日記和壹支筆。
He held the pistol in his right hand...
他右手握著手槍。
Hold is also a noun.
He released his hold on the camera.
他松手放開了照相機。
2. N-UNCOUNT （緊緊的）拿，握 Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of ,catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
I was woken up by someone grabbing hold of my sleeping bag...
有人猛地抓住了我的睡袋，把我驚醒了。
A doctor and a nurse caught hold of his arms...
壹名醫生和壹名護士抓住了他的雙臂。
Mother took hold of the barking dogs by their collars.
母親拉住了那幾只吠叫的狗的項圈。
3. VERB （通常為表示喜愛或安慰而）擁抱，抱住 When you hold someone, you put your arms round them, usually because you want to show them how much you like them or because you want to comfort them.
If only he would hold her close to him.
要是他能將她擁入懷中就好了。
4. VERB 用力使（某人）不得動彈 If you hold someone in a particular position, you use force to keep them in that position and stop them from moving.
He then held the man in an armlock until police arrived...
然後他反扭住那名男子的手臂讓他動彈不得，直到警察趕到。
I'd got two nurses holding me down.
兩名護士按著我不讓我亂動。
5. N-COUNT （使某人不得動彈的）抓住，夾住 A hold is a particular way of keeping someone in a position using your own hands, arms, or legs.
...use of an unauthorized hold on a handcuffed suspect.
對戴手銬的嫌疑犯使用非法的擒拿方式
6. VERB （常指疼傷痛而）按住，捂住 When you hold a part of your body, you put your hand on or against it, often because it hurts.
Soon she was crying bitterly about the pain and was holding her throat.
很快她痛得大哭起來，同時用手捂著自己的喉嚨。
7. VERB 使（身體部位）保持（某種姿勢） When you hold a part of your body in a particular position, you put it into that position and keep it there.
Hold your hands in front of your face...
把雙手舉在面前。
He walked at a rapid pace with his back straight and his head held erect.
他昂首挺胸地快步而行。
8. VERB 把…固定住 If one thing holds another in a particular position, it keeps it in that position.
...the wooden wedge which held the heavy door open...
卡住沈重的門不讓它關上的木楔
They used steel pins to hold everything in place.
他們用鋼釘將所有東西都固定住。
9. VERB 存放;盛放;裝 If one thing is used to hold another, it is used to store it.
Two knife racks hold her favourite knives.
兩個刀架上存放著她最心愛的刀具。
...the large cardboard and wooden cases used to hold my new appliances.
用來裝我新買的家用電器的幾個大的紙箱和木箱
10. N-COUNT （船、飛機等的）貨艙，行李艙 In a ship or aeroplane, a hold is a place where cargo or luggage is stored.
A fire had been reported in the cargo hold.
行李艙內報稱起火了。
11. VERB 儲備;儲存 If a place holds something, it keeps it available for reference or for future use.
The Small Firms Service holds an enormous amount of information on any business problem...
小型企業服務處備有關於各種商務問題的海量信息。
We have reviewed the data that we hold for the area.
我們已經審核過為該地區保存的數據了。
12. VERB 容納得下 If something holds a particular amount of something, it can contain that amount.
The small bottles don't seem to hold much...
這些小瓶子好像裝不下多少。
One CD-ROM disk can hold over 100,000 pages of text.
壹張光盤可以存儲十多萬多頁的文字資料。
13. VERB 大量喝（酒）而不醉 If you can hold your drink, you are able to drink large quantities of alcohol without becoming ill or getting drunk.
...but you had to be able to hold your liquor.
但妳得能喝酒才行。
14. VERB （車輛）抓（地） If a vehicle holds the road well, it remains in close contact with the road and can be controlled safely and easily.
I thought the car held the road really well.
我認為這輛車抓地性能真的非常好。