hold down

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This will help to hold down global prices—although possibly by less than in the past.
这也将有助于抑制全球价格的上升——尽管可能不可能像从前那样。
Although a strong yen hurts exporters, it helps hold down the prices of imports, for such things as oil and food.
尽管坚挺的日圆会打击出口商，但它也能抑制进口商品的价格，例如石油和食品。
Those bubbles lasted longer than expected because the flood of savings from developing markets hold down the risk-free rate.
因为发展中市场大量的储蓄注入抑制了无风险利率，所以泡沫持续的时间要比预计的长。

Plantings in the wetlands help hold down the soil against the forces of erosion, like wind and water.
Some of us are supermen, and it is quite wrong and wicked for us to be treated as though we were ordinary fellows, and therefore do not tie us down with these ridiculous codes of ethics, and morals, and other things which are simply the weapons by which the weak hold down the strong."
有些甚至是超人,把我们都作为普通人,来对待是错的,是不道德的,所以别用荒唐的,道德伦理来束缚我们,或用武器这样粗陋的东西来约束我们,那是弱者用来压制强者的工具"
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One character, Biff, could never hold down a job,
其中的一个角色，毕夫，他总是不能保住工作，
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They also lower costs at unsubsidized universities by forcing them to hold down tuition to compete.
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