hold your head up (also hold your head high) to behave as if you are proud of yourself or respect yourself 抬起头来，不垂头丧气 They may have lost the game, but I still think they’ve earned the right to hold their heads high today. 他们也许是输掉了这场比赛，但我仍然认为今天他们有权利昂首挺胸。
hold your head up• As a baby she may have had a hard time holding her head up, for example.• However, Linfield can hold their heads up high.• How else could a girl hold her head up in her family?• Her own cheeks had gone pale; her lids drooped over her eyes; she held her head up in her hand.• Just holding my head up like that.
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