| 单词 | keep |
| 释义 | keep (kiːp ) Word forms: keeps , keeping , kept 1. link verb A2 If someone keeps or is kept in a particular state, they remain in it. The noise kept him awake. [V n adj/prep] Reggie was being kept busy behind the bar. [V n adj/prep] To keep warm they burnt wood in a rusty oil barrel. [V adj/prep] For several years I kept in touch with her. [V adj/prep] 2. verb A2 If you keep or you are kept in a particular position or place, you remain in it. Keep away from the doors while the train is moving. [VERB adverb/preposition] He kept his head down, hiding his features. [VERB noun with adverb] It was against all orders to smoke, but a cigarette kept away mosquitoes. [VERB noun with adverb] Doctors will keep her in hospital for at least another week. [VERB noun preposition] 3. verb A2 If you keep off something or keep away from it, you avoid it. If you keep out of something, you avoid getting involved in it. You can also say that you keep someone off, away from, or out of something. I managed to stick to the diet and keep off sweet foods. [VERB preposition/adverb] The best way to keep babies off sugar is to go back to the natural diet. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] 4. verb B1+ If someone or something keeps you from a particular action, they prevent you from doing it. Embarrassment has kept me from doing all sorts of things. [VERB noun + from] He kept her from being lonely. [V n from -ing] What can you do to keep it from happening again? [V n from -ing] Synonyms: prevent, hold back, deter, inhibit 5. verb B2 If you try to keep from doing something, you try to stop yourself from doing it. She bit her lip to keep from crying. [VERB + from] He had to lean on Dan to keep from falling. [V from -ing] 6. verb B2 If you keep something from someone, you do not tell them about it. She knew that Gabriel was keeping something from her. [VERB noun + from] 7. verb B1 If you keep doing something, you do it repeatedly or continue to do it. I keep forgetting it's December. [VERB verb-ing] I turned back after a while, but he kept walking. [VERB verb-ing] Synonyms: continue, go on, carry on, persist in Keep on means the same as keep. Did he give up or keep on trying? [VERB PARTICLE verb-ing] My wife keeps on saying that I work too hard. [V P -ing] 8. verb B1+ Keep is used with some nouns to indicate that someone does something for a period of time or continues to do it. For example, if you keep a grip on something, you continue to hold or control it. Until last year, the regime kept a tight grip on the country. [VERB noun] One of them would keep a look-out on the road behind to warn us of approaching vehicles. [VERB noun] His parents kept a vigil by his bedside as he was given brain and body scans. [VERB noun] 9. verb A2 If you keep something, you continue to have it in your possession and do not throw it away, give it away, or sell it. 'I like this dress,' she said. 'Keep it. You can have it,' said Daphne. [VERB noun] Lathan had to choose between marrying her and keeping his job. [VERB noun] 10. verb B1 If you keep something in a particular place, you always have it or store it in that place so that you can use it whenever you need it. She kept her money under the mattress. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] She remembered where she kept the gun. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] To make it easier to contact us, keep this card handy. [VERB noun adjective] Synonyms: store, put, place, house 11. verb B1+ When you keep something such as a promise or an appointment, you do what you said you would do. I'm hoping you'll keep your promise to come for a long visit. [VERB noun] He had again failed to keep his word. [VERB noun] Synonyms: comply with, carry out, honour, fulfil 12. verb B2 If you keep a record of a series of events, you write down details of it so that they can be referred to later. Eleanor began to keep a diary. [VERB noun] The volunteers kept a record of everything they ate for a week. [VERB noun] Synonyms: record, report, write, document 13. verb If you keep yourself or keep someone else, you support yourself or the other person by earning enough money to provide food, clothing, money, and other necessary things. She could just about afford to keep her five kids. [VERB noun] I just cannot afford to keep myself. [VERB pronoun-reflexive] That should earn her enough to keep her in cookies for a while. [VERB noun + in] Synonyms: support, maintain, sustain, provide for 14. singular noun Someone's keep is the cost of food and other things that they need in their daily life. Ray will earn his keep on local farms while studying. I need to give my parents money for my keep. Synonyms: board, food, maintenance, upkeep 15. verb B2 If you keep animals, you own them and take care of them. I've brought you some eggs. We keep chickens. [VERB noun] This mad writer kept a lobster as a pet. [VERB noun as noun] Synonyms: raise, own, maintain, tend 16. verb If you keep a business such as a small shop or hotel, you own it and manage it. His father kept a village shop. [VERB noun] Synonyms: manage, run, administer, be in charge (of) 17. verb B1+ If someone or something keeps you, they delay you and make you late. Sorry to keep you, Jack. [VERB noun] 'What kept you?'—'I went in the wrong direction.' [VERB noun] Synonyms: delay, detain, hinder, impede 18. verb B2 If food keeps for a certain length of time, it stays fresh and suitable to eat for that time. Whatever is left over may be put into the refrigerator, where it will keep for 2-3 weeks. [VERB] Synonyms: stay fresh, be suitable, be safe to eat, remain flavoursome 19. verb [only cont] B2 You can say or ask how someone is keeping as a way of saying or asking whether they are well. She hasn't been keeping too well lately. [VERB adverb] How are you keeping these days? [VERB adverb] 20. countable noun A keep is the main tower of a medieval castle, in which people lived. 21. to keep at it phrase If you keep at it, you continue doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop. It may take a number of attempts, but it is worth keeping at it. 'Keep at it!' Thade encouraged me. 22. for keeps phrase [verb-link PHRASE, PHRASE after verb] Something that is for keeps is permanent and will not change. [informal] Ensure that whatever you gain now will be for keeps. He advised them to leave town for keeps. Synonyms: forever, permanent, for all time, for always 23. to keep going phrase B2 If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop. She forced herself to keep going. I was shouting: 'Keep going, keep going!' 24. in/out of keeping phrase If one thing is in keeping with another, it is suitable in relation to that thing. If one thing is out of keeping with another, it is not suitable in relation to that thing. His office was in keeping with his station and experience. [+ with] In keeping with tradition, the Emperor and Empress did not attend the ceremony. His own response to it seemed to be out of keeping with his earlier expressed opinions. 25. to keep it up phrase B2 If you keep it up, you continue working or trying as hard as you have been in the past. There are fears that he will not be able to keep it up. You're doing a great job! Keep it up! 26. to keep sth to yourself phrase If you keep something to yourself, you do not tell anyone else about it. I have to tell someone. I can't keep it to myself. There's one thing you can do for me. But keep it to yourself. 27. to keep (yourself) to yourself phrase If you keep yourself to yourself or keep to yourself, you stay on your own most of the time and do not mix socially with other people. He was a quiet man who kept himself to himself. Since she knows little Italian, she keeps to herself. 28. to keep someone company phrase B2 If you keep someone company, you spend time with them and stop them feeling lonely or bored. Why don't you stay here and keep Emma company? 29. to keep your end up phrase [VERB inflects] If you have to keep your end up, or to keep up your end of something, you have to do something as well as other people, or as well as you are expected to do it. [informal] I had to keep my end up with other professors in the faculty. He had trouble keeping up his end of a technical discussion. 30. to keep a straight face phrase If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh. What went through Tom's mind I can't imagine, but he did manage to keep a straight face. You have to wonder how anyone could say that seriously and with a straight face. 31. to keep your hand in phrase [VERB and NOUN inflect] If you do something to keep your hand in, you practise a skill or hobby occasionally in order to remain fairly good at it. [informal] He still plays keyboards for a local band to keep his hand in. 32. to keep your head phrase If you keep your head, you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head, you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation. She was able to keep her head and not panic. She lost her head and started screaming at me. Synonyms: stay calm, stay cool, remain unruffled, keep your shirt on [informal] 33. to keep house phrase [VERB inflects, oft PHR for n] If you keep house, you do the cleaning and cooking for your household, and do not go out to work. He lives with an aunt who keeps house for him. 34. to keep pace phrase If something keeps pace with something else that is changing, it changes quickly in response to it. Farmers are angry because the rise fails to keep pace with inflation. [+ with] ...a world changing far too fast for her to keep pace. 35. to keep the peace phrase If someone in authority, such as the army or the police, keeps the peace, they make sure that people behave and do not fight or quarrel with each other. ...the first U.N. contingent assigned to help keep the peace in Cambodia. 36. to keep a secret phrase B1 If you say that someone can keep a secret, you mean that they can be trusted not to tell other people a secret that you have told them. Tom was utterly indiscreet, and could never keep a secret. 37. to keep time phrase If you keep time when playing or singing music, you follow or play the beat, without going too fast or too slowly. As he sang, he kept time on a small drum. 38. to keep track phrase If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time. With eleven thousand employees, it's very difficult to keep track of them all. It's hard to keep track of time in here. Phrasal verbs: keep back 1. phrasal verb B2 If you keep back part of something, you do not use or give away all of it, so that you still have some to use at a later time. Roughly chop the vegetables, and keep back a little to chop finely and serve as a garnish. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you keep some information back, you do not tell all that you know about something. Neither of them is telling the whole truth. Invariably, they keep something back. [VERB noun PARTICLE] keep down 1. phrasal verb B2 If you keep the number, size, or amount of something down, you do not let it get bigger or go higher. The prime aim is to keep inflation down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Administration costs were kept down to just £460. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb If someone keeps a group of people down, they prevent them from getting power and status and being completely free. There is no holding her back or keeping her down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb If you keep food or drink down, you manage to swallow it properly and not vomit, even though you feel sick. I tried to give her something to drink but she couldn't keep it down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] keep in with phrasal verb If you keep in with someone, you stay friendly with them, often in order to gain some advantage for yourself because they have power or influence. [mainly British] I had to keep in with the people who mattered. [VERB PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] keep on 1. keep [sense 7] 2. phrasal verb If you keep someone on, you continue to employ them, for example after they are old enough to retire or after other employees have lost their jobs. Sometimes they keep you on a bit longer if there's no one quite ready to step into your shoes. [VERB noun PARTICLE] A skeleton staff of 20 is being kept on. [VERB noun PARTICLE] keep on about phrasal verb If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way. [British, informal] He kept on about me being 'defensive'. [VERB PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] keep on at phrasal verb If you keep on at someone, you repeatedly ask or tell them something in a way that annoys them. [British, informal] You've constantly got to keep on at people about that. [VERB PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] She kept on at him to get some qualifications. [V P P n to-inf] keep to 1. phrasal verb B2 If you keep to a rule, plan, or agreement, you do exactly what you are expected or supposed to do. You've got to keep to the speed limit. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He had been unable to keep to his schedule. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you keep to something such as a path or river, you do not move away from it as you go somewhere. Please keep to the paths. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verb B2 If you keep to a particular subject, you talk only about that subject, and do not talk about anything else. Let's keep to the subject, or you'll get me too confused. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 4. phrasal verb B2 If you keep something to a particular number or quantity, you limit it to that number or quantity. Keep costs to a minimum. [VERB noun PARTICLE noun] keep up 1. phrasal verb B2 If you keep up with someone or something that is moving near you, you move at the same speed. She shook her head and started to walk on. He kept up with her. [VERB PARTICLE + with] 2. phrasal verb B2 To keep up with something that is changing means to be able to cope with the change, usually by changing at the same rate. ...wage increases which keep up with inflation. [VERB PARTICLE + with] Things are changing so fast; it's hard to keep up. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb B2 If you keep up with your work or with other people, you manage to do or understand all your work, or to do or understand it as well as other people. Penny tended to work through her lunch hour in an effort to keep up with her work. [VERB PARTICLE + with] Life is tough for kids who aren't keeping up in school. [VERB PARTICLE] 4. phrasal verb If you keep up with what is happening, you make sure that you know about it. She did not bother to keep up with the news. [VERB PARTICLE + with] 5. phrasal verb B2 If you keep something up, you continue to do it or provide it. I was so hungry all the time that I could not keep the diet up for longer than a month. [VERB noun PARTICLE] They risk losing their homes because they can no longer keep up the repayments. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 6. phrasal verb B2 If you keep something up, you prevent it from growing less in amount, level, or degree. There will be a major incentive among TV channels to keep standards up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Opposition forces are keeping up the pressure against the government. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 7. See also keep [sense 25] Collocations: keep a record By the way, if you think it eccentric to keep a record of such statistics, you're wrong. Times, Sunday Times I resolved to keep a record of my feelings. Christianity Today The representative should keep a record of the expenditure, such as a copy of the ticket. Christianity Today Make sure you keep a record of your selected parks and dates. The Sun As a precursor to any claim, keep a record of all incidents and discussions with the neighbours, including any impact on health. Times, Sunday Times Pastors, especially, know the frustration of trying to keep a schedule when people want to see them. Christianity Today I keep the schedule realistic. Christianity Today I couldn't keep his schedule for a day. Houston Chronicle Windjammers were mainly built from the 1870s to 1900, when steamships began to outpace them economically, due to their ability to keep a schedule regardless of the wind. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has kept this schedule for more than five years. Times, Sunday Times So what's the new gossip to keep momentum going through 2001? Houston Chronicle That's why you have to keep momentum all the time. Times, Sunday Times Keen to keep momentum with their new fans, the band set out to write a song with hit potential. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's a bit harder than leading, which just involves keeping momentum. The Sun Swooping past the yellow cabs filling the streets, keeping momentum and effortlessly arriving at your destination brings genuine moments of exhilaration. The Sun Like businesses, government has some things that it would like to keep secret. Times, Sunday Times Words you usually keep secret are ready to be spoken. The Sun Last night, the government defended its decision to keep secret the full version of the serious case review. Times, Sunday Times Out would go the need for complicated analysis at the centre, or for decisions about how much to keep secret. Times, Sunday Times His friendship with a crime reporter determined to reveal what the police wish to keep secret gets him into more trouble. Times, Sunday Times The unstable, wobbly surface means you work your deep tummy muscles to keep upright. The Sun A round-hulled craft requires a lot more skill to keep upright. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Holding the barre (or a chair) with one hand for support, sink 10in down keeping upright with shoulders over hips and ears over shoulders. Times, Sunday Times The inflatables had to be kept upright with blasts from an air pipe. Times, Sunday Times Originally every seat in the 300-capacity hall was designed to recline but now those at the front are kept upright. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 保持, 使留在, 重复做, 保存 Japanese: 持ち続ける, 近づかない, ･･･し続ける, ･･･をしまっておく |
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