hold good

基本解釋

If bad politics leads to terrible results, the reverse may also hold good.
如果說是政策失誤導(dǎo)致了糟糕結(jié)果產(chǎn)生的話，政策得當(dāng)還是會有好的結(jié)果。
Whether these findings will hold good for other types of request is unknown.
這個發(fā)現(xiàn)對于其他請求是否有效，目前還不清楚。
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，還有一種是實踐假說，即個體在進(jìn)行交配練習(xí)，這中假說至少在雄性果蠅身上得到了很好的印證。

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.
她是這么回答的,同時也解釋了為何南方人始終無法釋懷,她說,"南方人鐘愛精彩的故事
耶魯公開課 - 美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)與重建課程節(jié)選
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."
上帝是如此害怕我們,都開始懷疑自己能否駕馭自己的帝國了，他維系這個帝國,靠的是運(yùn)氣或者是強(qiáng)大的火力，絕非是靠什么偉大的無所不能的神力“
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

Yet, to judge from these lists, this axiom does not hold good for book publishers.
ECONOMIST: What the world is reading