1. Nights are long in hospitals, but all through the night the young Marine sat there in the dimly-lit ward, holding the old man's hand and offering words of hope and strength.
    医院里长夜漫漫，但是年轻的海军陆战队队员整夜都坐在灯光昏暗的病房里，握着老人的手，说着充满希望与力量的话。

2. He was holding an infant in his arms.
    他抱着婴儿.

3. He gets the solid shape, as it were, inside his head----he thinks of it, whatever its size, as if he were holding it completely enclosed in the hollow of his hand.
    可以说，当他想像一个物体时，不管其大小如何，他脑子里得到的是一个立体的概念，就好像完全握在自己手心里一样。

4. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake.
    司机妻子正坐在他身边，手里托着块大蛋糕。

5. He could make out three men in a basket under it and one of them was holding a pair of binoculars.
    他看清了气球下面有3个人呆在一只筐里，其中一个举着望远镜。

6. However, these dams also cause problems. In some places, the holding areas behind the dams have destroyed the environment for animals, birds, and plants.
    然而这些水坝也造成了问题。有些地方, 水坝后面的蓄水区已经破坏了动物、鸟类和植物的生存环境。

7. His hands, four times as large, reached out slowly and held them as though they were holding up two tiny birds.
    他慢慢地伸出双手，那双手足有女孩的手四倍大，握住了那双小手，就好像捧着两只小鸟一样。

8. Daydream. Painter Salvador Dali used to lie on a sofa, holding a spoon.
    冥思遐想。画家萨尔瓦多·达利经常手拿着勺子躺在沙发上。

9. Does the man holding a woman in front of him really have a gun or not?
    那个抓着一名妇女挡在身前的人真拿着枪吗？

10. A group of schoolmasters are holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.
    一群老师正在开一新的历史教学方法的讨论会。