- 保持低水平，使不上涨(或增加)，压低，缩减：
You couldn't hold the cost of production down.
你没能压低生产成本。
Hold your voice down, children.
孩子们，压低点儿嗓门。
- 照料，看护：
Who held down your children then?
那会儿谁帮你照看孩子们呢?
- 使(食物)留在胃里，不呕吐：
I must help her hold the medicine down.
我必须先解决她吃下药就吐出的病况。
- (把工作)顺利地做下去；保住(某职位)：
I hope you can hold this case down like David.
我希望你能像大卫那样把这个案子顺利地办好。
I have to hold down my post.
我得设法保住我的职位。
- 控制；压制；限制：
How could you hold down the situation?
你是怎么控制住局势的?
The people who were held down ruthlessly would not yield to aggressors.
受到侵略者残酷镇压的人民是决不会向他们屈服的。