take hold (idiom)
1.生根
Following the drafting of a new constitution in the 1990s, there was a chance that real democracy would finally take hold.
一九九零年代新憲法草擬後，真正的民主終於有生根的機會。
Nor can we judge at this early stage whether democracy will take hold in the region.
我們也無法在這麼早的階段就判斷民主是否能在這個地區生根。
2.落實
Is three months enough time for recon-struction to take hold?
Is three months enough time for recon-struction to take hold?
三個月的時間是否足夠讓重建工作落實？
Economic reform have begun to take hold.
經濟改革已經開始落實。
3.蔓延
It is not clear why the virus has suddenly tak-en hold.
病毒突然蔓延的原因不明。
All it would need for the virus to take hold was one HIV-positive donor.
愛滋病毒要蔓延只需一個帶原的捐血人。
4.生成
In some places, a new cultural stereotype has taken hold.
有些地方，新的文化刻板印象已經生成。
5.生存
Will biofuels be able to take hold without tax credits and subsides?
沒有稅額扣抵和補貼， 生化燃料能生存嗎?
6.發生
He explains that AST takes hold when we get too overloaded with incoming messages and competing tasks that we are unable to prioritize.
他說，當傳進來的訊息以及同時要做的工作讓我們不堪負荷，以致無法排定優先順序時，注意力不足的現象就發生了。
Should a pandemic take hold, demand would soar for surgical masks.
如果有流行病發生，外科口罩的需求將急遽上升。
7.展開
But an even more important revolution is taking hold in the amateur sporting world.
但一個甚至更重要的革命正在業餘體育界展開。
8.盛行
Many scientists are hopeful, however, that a new, more practical ethos of exercise is beginning to take hold.
然而，許多科學家相信一種更務實的新運動風氣已經開始盛行。
Fad diets exist in this part of the world but haven’t really taken hold.
流行飲食我們這個地方有，但還沒有真正盛行。
9.生效
The idea is to weaken Hizballah as much as possible before a cease-fire takes hold.
這個建議的目的是要在停火生效前儘量削弱真主黨的力量。
10.根深蒂固
Indeed, the idea that citizens need to have a greater say in choosing their leader does seem to have taken hold.
事實上，市民應有更大決定權選擇他們領導人的想法似乎已經根深蒂固。
11.侵入
China needs to educate its young people and make it difficult for American influence to take hold.
中國需要教育它的年輕人，讓美國影響力難以侵入。
12.產生
Now in the putatively free Putin era, a new kind of censorship has taken hold.
現在，在大家都以為沒有普亭的時代， 一種新的檢查制度產生了。
13.奏效
Whatever the coach said seemed to take hold.
教練說的似乎都奏效了。
