hold dear

1 to think that something is very important 珍视某物

Household economy was something my mother held very dear.

我母亲非常重视家庭经济。

Examples from the Corpus

hold something dear• Everything I held dear was destroyed in the war.

→ hold something dear at dear2(1)

2 IMPORTANT formal to care about something or someone a lot 珍视某物/某人

We were facing the loss of everything we held dear.

我们面临着失去全部所爱的可能。

→ hold something/somebody dear at hold1(19)

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