hold good

基本解释

If bad politics leads to terrible results, the reverse may also hold good.
如果说是政策失误导致了糟糕结果产生的话，政策得当还是会有好的结果。
Whether these findings will hold good for other types of request is unknown.
这个发现对于其他请求是否有效，目前还不清楚。
Then there is the practice hypothesis, that individuals are honing their skills for mating, which seems to hold good for male fruit flies at least.
此外，还有一种是实践假说，即个体在进行交配练习，这中假说至少在雄性果蝇身上得到了很好的印证。

And women hold fifty-one percent of good-paying management and professional jobs.
Her answer was this and it's got something to do with how a lost cause took hold too but she said, "Southerners love a good tale.
她是这么回答的,同时也解释了为何南方人始终无法释怀,她说,"南方人钟爱精彩的故事
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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“
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Yet, to judge from these lists, this axiom does not hold good for book publishers.
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