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欢迎收看美国之声：新闻词汇。

This news word is about international students in New York City: Maintain.

这条新闻跟纽约的国际生有关：维持。

The International House is more than housing for international graduate students.

国际学舍不仅仅是国际研究生的住所。

Without the International House, New York would have been a very, very, lonely place.

如果没有国际学舍，纽约将会是一个非常非常孤独的地方。

The students have a shared desire to maintain the personal connections they made when they return home.

学生们都有共同的意愿，在他们回国时维持他们创造的人际关系。

To maintain something is to keep it in existence—to continue it without change.

维持某件事物是指让它保持存在的状态——即延续它且不发生改变。

Maintain also means keeping something in good condition by making repairs to fix its problems.

维持还指通过修复或修理某些东西的问题让其保持良好的状态。