maintenance

英 [ˈmeɪntənəns]

美 [ˈmeɪntənəns]

n. 维护; 保养; 维持; 保持; (依法应负担的)生活费; 抚养费

Collins.2 / BNC.2198 / COCA.3067

牛津词典

noun

维护；保养
the act of keeping sth in good condition by checking or repairing it regularly
1. The school pays for heating and the maintenance of the buildings.
  学校负担这些大楼的供热和维修费用。
2. car maintenance
  汽车保养
维持；保持
the act of making a state or situation continue
1. the maintenance of international peace
  维护世界和平
（依法应负担的）生活费；抚养费
money that sb must pay regularly to their former wife, husband or partner, especially when they have had children together
1. He has to pay maintenance to his ex-wife.
  他必须付给前妻生活费。
2. child maintenance
  儿童抚养费
3. a maintenance order (= given by a court of law)
  （法院下达的）生活费支付令

N-UNCOUNT （对建筑物、道路、机器等的）定期维修，检修，保养
Themaintenanceof a building, vehicle, road, or machine is the process of keeping it in good condition by regularly checking it and repairing it when necessary.
1. ...maintenance work on government buildings...
  政府大楼的修缮工作
2. The window had been replaced last week during routine maintenance.
  上周例行维修的时候换了窗户。
3. ...car maintenance lessons.
  汽车维修课程
N-UNCOUNT 赡养费；生活费
Maintenanceis money that someone gives regularly to another person to pay for the things that the person needs.
1. ...the government's plan to make absent fathers pay maintenance for their children.
  使弃家的父亲支付孩子抚养费的政府计划
N-UNCOUNT （状态、进程等的）维持，保持
If you ensure themaintenance ofa state or process, you make sure that it continues.
1. ...the maintenance of peace and stability in Asia.
  维护亚洲的和平与稳定
2. ...the importance of natural food to the maintenance of health.
  天然食品对保持健康的重要性

noun

activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
1. he wrote the manual on car care
Synonym:careupkeep
the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
1. unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
Synonym:criminal maintenance
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
1. they were in want of sustenance
2. fishing was their main sustainment
Synonym:sustenancesustentationsustainmentupkeep
court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
Synonym:alimony
means of maintenance of a family or group

This provides the best balance between performance and maintenance costs.
这提供了性能与维护成本之间的平衡。
Other than blowing up a tyre I hadn't done any car maintenance.
除了给轮胎充气外，我没做过任何汽车保养。
His firm took over the planting and general maintenance of the park last March.
他的公司去年3月接管了公园的绿化和日常维护工作。
Performs installation and ongoing maintenance work on hardware, operating and database systems, and middleware.
执行硬件、操作系统和数据库系统以及中间件的安装和正在进行的维护工作。
The database has been configured for automated backups and maintenance.
这个数据库已经配置了自动备份和维护。
The construction of such a caching mechanism further complicates the development and maintenance of this system.
构造这种高速缓存机制使该系统的开发和维护进一步复杂化。
He has to pay maintenance to his ex-wife.
他必须给前妻抚养费。
Complexity and high installation and maintenance costs are a reality of today's computer systems.
复杂性以及高昂的安装和维护费用是今天的计算机系统中存在的一个事实。
This creates redundant expressions and adds complexity to system maintenance.
这就造成了表达式冗余，增加了系统维护的难度。
Small gardens can be high maintenance.
小花园可能需要耗费很多精神打理。