to have a clear conscience toward somebody; not to let somebody down; to have nothing to be ashamed of
Examples (Wiktionary)
Cantonese
仲未得住。
仲未得住。
zung6 mei6 dak1 zyu6.
It's still not OK.
Mandarin
我拿父亲的话给她解释,企图消除她对我能否复学的疑虑:“我‘伯伯’说,他只能供得住一个中学生;俺兄弟俩同时念中学,他供不住。”
我拿父親的話給她解釋,企圖消除她對我能否復學的疑慮:“我‘伯伯’説,他只能供得住一箇中學生;俺兄弟倆同時念中學,他供不住。”
wǒ ná fù qīn de huà gěi tā jiě shì , qǐ tú xiāo chú tā duì wǒ néng fǒu fù xué de yí lǜ : “ wǒ ‘ bó bó ’ shuō , tā zhǐ néng gōng dé zhù yī ge zhōng xué shēng ; ǎn xiōng dì liǎ tóng shí niàn zhōng xué , tā gōng bù zhù . ”
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Mandarin
你能hold得住吗?
你能hold得住嗎?
nǐ néng hold de zhù ma ?
Will you be coping okay?
Mandarin
理性的东西所以靠得住,正是由于它来源于感性,否则理性的东西就成了无源之水,无本之木,而只是主观自生的靠不住的东西了。
理性的東西所以靠得住,正是由於它來源於感性,否則理性的東西就成了無源之水,無本之木,而只是主觀自生的靠不住的東西了。
lǐ xìng de dōng xi suǒ yǐ kào de zhù , zhèng shì yóu yú tā lái yuán yú gǎn xìng , fǒu zé lǐ xìng de dōng xi jiù chéng le wú yuán zhī shuǐ , wú běn zhī mù , ér zhǐ shì zhǔ guān zì shēng de kào bu zhù de dōng xi le .
The rational is reliable precisely because it has its source in sense perceptions, other wise it would be like water without a source, a tree without roots, subjective, self-engendered and unreliable.
Mandarin
哲学史上有所谓“唯理论”一派,就是只承认理性的实在性,不承认经验的实在性,以为只有理性靠得住,而感觉的经验是靠不住的,这一派的错误在于颠倒了事实。
哲學史上有所謂“唯理論”一派,就是隻承認理性的實在性,不承認經驗的實在性,以為只有理性靠得住,而感覺的經驗是靠不住的,這一派的錯誤在於顛倒了事實。
zhé xué shǐ shàng yǒu suǒ wèi “ wéi lǐ lùn ” yī pài , jiù shì zhǐ chéng rèn lǐ xìng de shí zài xìng , bù chéng rèn jīng yàn de shí zài xìng , yǐ wéi zhǐ yǒu lǐ xìng kào de zhù , ér gǎn jué de jīng yàn shì kào bu zhù de , zhè yī pài de cuò wù zài yú diān dǎo le shì shí .
In the history of philosophy there is the “rationalist” school that admits the reality only of reason and not of experience, believing that reason alone is reliable while perceptual experience is not; this school errs by turning things upside down.