英语词汇“keep house”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to keep house and variants.

(a) To manage the day-to-day affairs of a household; to take charge of the house and perform or direct domestic work; (now typically) to do the cooking, cleaning, and other tasks involved in the running of a household. to keep (a person's) house: to maintain and manage the house for someone. to keep a neat, tidy, etc., house: to maintain a house of the sort specified. [Compare the etymological note at to hold house, and also housekeep v.]

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society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] > manage or administrate > manage household

to keep housec1405

to hold or keep householdc1425

to housewife it1566

economize1649

housekeep1813

to do for ——1844

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 138 Ther as ther is no wyf the hous to kepe.

1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. Xi He led her home vnto his house, and left her there with an olde woman that kept his house, to whom he recomended her.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 91 I may call him my Master..for I keepe his house; and I wash, ring..make the beds, and doe all my selfe.

a1739 S. Wesley Poems Several Occasions (1743) 66 Who spares for Meat and Drink in keeping House, May save her Substance, but may lose her Spouse.

1808 A. M. Grant Mem. Amer. Lady I. xxxii. 316 They always were considered as equals, and each kept a neat house.

1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. iv. 29 Miss Bingley is to live with her brother, and keep his house .

1891 Cornhill Mag. July 57 She meant to keep house for her father.

1933 ‘E. Cambridge’ Hostages to Fortune 303 Valiantly..she had kept his house and brought up his children.

1956 M. Dickens Angel in Corner ix. 155 No man has the slightest idea of keeping house.

1996 Sunday Post (Glasgow) 30 June 6/3 If the worst comes to the worst at least people will know I kept a tidy house.

2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers vii. 337 Noranna being one of the women who keep house here: not to be called servants merely.

(b) To maintain and preside over a household; (also †to keep one's house) to have one's home, reside (in a place). to keep house with: to reside in and maintain a house with; similarly to keep house together. Also figurative. Now archaic. [Compare Middle French tenir maison, used with adverb of place (a1407).]

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)]

wonc725

erdec893

siteOE

liveeOE

to make one's woningc960

through-wonOE

bigc1175

walkc1225

inwonea1300

lenda1300

lenga1300

lingera1300

erthec1300

stallc1315

lasta1325

lodge1362

habit?a1366

breeda1375

inhabitc1374

indwella1382

to have one's mansionc1385

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

keepc1400

repairc1400

to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

winc1425

to make (one's) residence1433

resort1453

abidec1475

use1488

remaina1500

demur1523

to keep one's house1523

occupy1523

reside1523

enerdc1540

kennel1552

bower1596

to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597

subsist1618

mansiona1638

tenant1650

fastena1657

hospitate1681

wont1692

stay1754

to hang out1811

home1832

habitate1866

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > inhabit house

to hold or keep householdc1425

housec1440

to keep house1523

to take up housec1600

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxv. f. lvi/1 The kyng withall his nauy lay in the hauyn of Sluse and there he kept his house.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxii[i]. 9 Which maketh the baren woman to kepe house.

1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. B2 When the fiery spirit of hot youth Kept house within me.

1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty 14 I am Poverty;..One that hath kept house with you this thirty years and upwards.

1702 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 172 Her majestie will not begin to keep house as queen till the 1st of July.

1793 European Mag. & London Rev. Feb. 98/1 At that period he and a maiden sister kept house together.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 2 In this the children play'd at keeping house.

1890 Temple Bar Sept. 43 The pair began to keep house upon love and hope.

1908 Northeastern Reporter 83 90/2 While in Springfield he kept house and was registered as a voter there.

1945 C. R. Fay Life & Labour in Nineteenth Cent. (ed. 3) ii. 17 Imperialism was picked up by protection, and for some years the two kept house together in uneasy..companionship.

1994 J. Updike Brazil xxvi. 211 Farms..where a single couple..kept house with their chickens and pigs.

(c) With modifying word. To provide in a specified manner (as poorly, generously, etc.) for the household, or (especially) for visitors or guests; often (and now chiefly) in to keep open house (see open house n. 1). [Compare Middle French, French tenir maison ouverte (c1510).]

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society > leisure > social event > hospitality > show hospitality [verb (intransitive)] > liberal

to hold or keep householdc1425

to keep open door(s)1526

to keep (also hold) (an) open house1530

to keep house1530

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 597/1 The kyng is determyned to kepe house or open house this Christemas, le roy est deliberé de tenir court planiere ce Noel qui vient.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxv^v He kept a liberall hous to all commers.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. i. 23 Alas good Lord, a Noble Gentleman 'tis, if he would not keep so good a house.

1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 598 If the trade fails in the shop, there is but a poor house kept within.

1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) vii. 61 He kept a miserable house, but the Blame was laid wholly upon Madam.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 250 I should have to keep a kosher house, or look how people would talk.

1958 J. C. Herold Mistress to Age ix. 141 Mrs. Trevor..was spending the season in Lausanne, where she kept a lavish house.

2005 Encycl. Women & Islamic Cultures II. 230/2 Altorki notes that among the Jiddah elite a hostess should keep a ‘glittering, spotless, generous house’.

(d) to keep one's (or the) house: to stay indoors; to be confined to the house, as by illness, etc.; = to keep to the house at to keep to —— 2 at keep v. Phrasal verbs 2. Now rare.Formerly also: †to stay in the house for the purpose of guarding it (figurative in quot. 1608). Obsolete.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > inhabit house > remain indoors

firec1500

to keep one's (or the) house1542

to keep up1704

to settle in1817

1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 4 Sundrie persons..kepe their houses, not mindinge to paie..their debts.

1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 146 Beyng sicke, and therefore kepyng his house.

1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices i. 6 Both his eyes are neuer at once from home, but one keepes house while the other roues abroad for intelligence.

1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen II. 62 Sure, there is no necessity for us to keep house till she arrives.

1822 C. Abbott in R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench I. 61 Did not the bankrupt begin to keep house as a mode of absenting himself with an intent to delay his creditors?

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 45 Weakening the man, till he could do no more, But kept the house, his chair, and last his bed.

1902 P. E. Pinkerton tr. H. Düntzer Life Schiller (new ed.) iii. 476 Directly after that Schiller had to keep his house for a couple of days.

1914 O. J. Campbell & F. Schenck tr. L. Holberg Comedies 23 When the nobleman saw how big his head looked..he burst into tears... They say that he kept the house for several days.