hang on to it

基本解释

You can try to hang on to it or you can get over it.
你可以嘗試一直想著它或者跨越它。
Fully 40% of Republicans believe that the Democrats will capture the presidency in 2008, compared with 12% of Democrats who think the Republicans will hang on to it.
足足有40%的共和黨人認爲，2008年民主黨人會奪得縂統職位；與之相比，衹有12%的民主黨人認爲，共和黨會守住陣地。
Most importantly, the past is the past, you can't change it. You can try to hang on to it or you can get over it.
最重要的是，過去的已經過去，你無法改變。你可以嘗試一直想著它或者跨越它。

But those in favor and those opposed seem to agree on one thing: the matter must be settled quickly so it doesn't hang over the AU agenda, taking up valuable time at summits for years to come.
The rate and pace of change in the industry is such that it's always kind of a jump ball environment where companies are not able to hang on to a great position for a super long time.
這一行變化的速度,就是這樣,縂処於一種跳球環境中,公司不能,永遠処於不敗之地。
斯坦福公開課 - 戴爾CEO-Michael.Dell談創業和發展課程節選
if I could hang your hat on one kind of Southern distinctiveness, perhaps above all it's fun to play with all these stereotypes and realize that if so many people were writing this way, from personal observation, yes, there must be something to all these differences.
如果我們現在好好思考一下南方的特點,也許首先,讓我們想想所有關於南方的陳見,不難意識到,如果那麽多人通過個人觀察,寫出的南方都大同小異,那麽這些南方特點一定有其根源
耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰與重建課程節選

She wants to hang on to it until it's time to pass it on to her three children.
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