upkeep
n. 维持；维持费；保养费；生活费
近义词：maintenance，support，provision，backing，conservation，protection，settlement，repairs，keep，preservation，running，sustainment，care，sustenance，sustentation，
英英释义
Noun
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order;
"he wrote the manual on car care"
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence;
"they were in want of sustenance" "fishing was their main sustainment"
例句
用作名词(n.)
- I can't afford the upkeep of a large house and garden.我负担不起带花园的大房子的维护费。
- Britain has decided that it can no longer afford the upkeep of Greenwich Mean Time.英国已经决定不再负担维持格林威治标准时的费用。
- The car casts five thousand dollars a year in upkeep.这辆车子每年用掉五千元的保养费。
- Our taxes help pay for the upkeep of the city's parks.我们交纳的税部分用于市内各公园的保养。
- He earned his own upkeep at a very early age.他很小就自食其力了。