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be permitted to被允许

例句：You will be permitted to use all the facilities after fee payment.
      付费后便可使用所有设施。

permit和allow的区别

allow与permit的用法区别的用法区别 1)两者均可表示“允许”，其区别是permit 通常指上级、规则或法令等表示的准许，其语气较重；而 allow 通常指消极地不加反对，有时含有听任或默许之意，语气较轻。如：Nothing is permitted; everything is allowed. 一切都没明文规定可以做，但一切做了也无妨。The nurse allowed him to remain there，though it was not permitted. 护士让他留在那儿，而按规定那是不许可的。

2)从用法上看,两者后接动词作宾语时，均要用动名词形式，而不能用不定式。如：We don’t allow [permit] swimming in the pool. 我们不许在池子里游泳。但是若其后接有名词或代词，那么其后须接不定式。如：We don’t allow [permit] children to swim in the pool. 我们不许孩子们在池子里游泳。注意这类结构的被动式之后可用不定式(此时的不定式不是宾语，而是主语补语)。如：正：We do not allow [permit] people to smoke here.正：People are not allowed [permitted] to smoke here.误：People are not allowed [permitted] smoking here.

2.And many, especially the young, are reportedly having a harder time trying to hold on to their spiritual and cultural traditions.

hold on to坚持,固守,抓紧

例句：You should hold on to your oil shares.
      你应该继续保留着石油股份。

      We had fought to hold on to the company.
      我们曾经为保住公司而奋斗。