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单词 to keep measures with
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to keep measures with
e. to keep (also observe) measure(s) (also a measure): to be moderate or restrained in action. †to keep measures with: to show consideration towards (a person). Frequently in negative contexts. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > behave with moderation or restraint [verb (intransitive)]
to keep (also observe) measure(s) (also a measure)a1500
to use a mean1607
go-easy1860
to pull one's punches1931
to go slow1962
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > be courteous to [verb (transitive)]
courtesy1570
notice1660
to keep measures with1709
a1500 ( W. Worcester Scrope's Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Trin. Cambr.) (1999) 290 (MED) [a1475 Bodl. It is a fulle harde thinge and a straite] to kepe a mesur ande to be longe hole.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Oviiiv In rewardes they kepe no measure.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. iii. 82 Our Author..endeavours to shew Civility and Favour, by keeping the fairest Measures he possibly can with the Men of this sort.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 361 He thought fit to keep measures with him in the beginning, hoping perhaps by gentle methods to bring him back to his duty.
1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. IV. 68 The tyrants..no longer observed any measures.
1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 7. 53 If his taylor continue to disappoint him, I promise to keep no measures with the delinquent.
1831 Lives of Eminent Brit. Statesmen I. 100 More, having no longer any measures to keep, openly declared, that [etc.].
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters viii. 198 He keeps no measure in his contempt for him.
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