单词hold the line
na.: (打电话时)等着不挂断；坚持下去
网络: 别挂电话；等一下；别挂断
坚守
Just as the north thinks it has good reason to hold the line, the south is loth to let the 2005 agreement go.
正当北方人认为他们有很好的理由保持现在的局面，南方人却很不乐意放弃2005年签署的和平协议。
John Smith. A: Hold the line, please. Mr. Bush is in a meeting with the Managing Director at the moment, I"m afraid. Can I help you?
请别挂机，Bush先生正在和总经理开会，我可以帮你忙吗？
A: Hold the line, please. Mr. Bush is in a meeting with the general manager at the moment. Can I help you?
请别挂机，布什先生正在和总经理开会，我可以帮你忙吗？
He wanted me to hold the line while he talked to his supervisor, but I told him I wanted an answer immediately.
他要我等一下，让他和主管说个话；但我告诉他，我马上就要个答案。
Expenses have been mounting, and you have been trying to hold the line while you work on finding new sources of income.
支出在增多，你一直在努力坚持，努力找到收入的新资源。
On the contrary, it will be up to an enfeebled European Commission to try to hold the line.
相反，人们还要依靠遭到削弱的欧盟委员会来努力维持当前局势。
But having an assembly chairman who himself came to power through a coup d"etat is clearly not going to help them hold the line.
但是这个靠政变夺权的大会主席显然不能帮助他们坚守阵地。
Would you hold the line please? I would find out his number for you.
请你不要挂断，我为你找出他的电话。
Just a minute. Hold the line, please.
稍等一下，请别挂线。
Yes, hold the line , please I"ll get him for you right away.
在，请不要挂断，我马上替你找到他。