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

h. to keep time. Also with modifying adjective.

(a)

(i) To adhere to the correct rhythm in the performance of a piece of music, a dance, or other rhythmic activity; to keep pace with a beat, another performer, etc. (also with to). Also figurative.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [verb (intransitive)] > keep time

to keep timea1527

a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 479 Who so lyst to handill an instrument so goode Must se in his many fyngerynge þ^t he kepe tyme stop and moode.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. v. 43 Keepe time, how sowre sweete Musicke is When time is broke, and no proportion kept.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. ii. sig. B4 Slow, Slow Fresh fount, keepe time with my salt teares.

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche vi. clvii. 86/2 Though she kept slow time, yet she sung true.

a1657 C. Croke Fortune's Uncertainty (1667) 84 They all plaid on the Guittar and Cittern, and the irrational Animals prettily kept time to their musical Notes.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) When, in galloping, the hind quarters follow and keep time with the fore.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. vii. 177 They keep time with such exactness, that 60 or 100 paddles..make only a single report.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lx. 31 I can't well break it, But must keep time and tune like public singers.

1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. 330 He puts on it first his right and then his left foot, gradually quickening his steps, keeping time to the words.

1928 Daily Express 22 June 11/3 There is the ‘piaffe’ in which the horses keep time without advancing.

1975 P. Kronhausen & E. Kronhausen Sex People iii. 23 She went into a thumping, shimmying..bump-and-grind routine that kept perfect time with the music.

2003 Vogue Aug. 320 (caption) Rose-cheeked Scottish maids who sang folk ballads in unison to keep time with one another as they passed the fabric from one hand to hand.

(ii) To mark the rhythm or pulse of a musical performance by movements of the hand, a baton, etc.; = to beat time at beat v.¹ 32.

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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous [verb (intransitive)] > keep time with

to keep stotc1590

to keep stroke16..

to keep time1658

to beat time1694

time1830

synchronize1867

simultane1880

1658 J. Playford Breif Introd. Skill Musick (new ed.) i. viii. 24 In the Keeping your Time your hand goes up at one Minum and down at the other.

1663 S. Pepys Diary 22 Nov. (1971) IV. 394 The King is a little Musicall, and kept good time with his hand all along the Anthem.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 503. ⁋2 Now the Organ was to play a Voluntary, and she..kept time..with some Motion of her Head.

1835 A. Smith Diary 10 Dec. (1940) II. 298 She kept time with her fingers by beating upon the dried lambskin... This..furnished delightful music.

1897 R. Jay Missionary Family 255 No sooner..did the voluntary begin, than the little feet were on the move, keeping brisk time against the front of the pew.

1908 King's Royal Rifle Corps Chron. 1907 48 He himself played a cornet, with which he conducted..; he kept time by stamping with his right foot.

1989 T. Kidder Among Schoolchildren vii. i. 233 Judith's father kept time on a güiro.

2004 Mod. Drummer June 144/3 The idea of playing phrases as opposed to just keeping time, setting the meter, or establishing an underbed for the other bandmembers to play off of.

(b)

(i) Of a timepiece: to register the passage of time well, badly, etc.; (without qualification) to do this correctly or reliably.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [verb (intransitive)] > be accurate

to keep timea1582

a1582 W. Bourne Inuentions or Deuises (?1590) cxiii. 98 It hath bene done by wheeles, as you may see by clockes, that doo keepe tyme, some goyng with plummets, and some with springs.

1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. vii. 70 Our body is as a well-set clock which keeps good time.

1714 W. Derham Artific. Clock-maker (ed. 3) v. 71 This Clock having for some Years kept time as well as could be expected, I hung upon its Weight an Addition of 6 Pound.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 68/1 None of them [sc. spring clocks and watches] can be so sufficiently adjusted as to keep Time to Exactness.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xvii. 189 An orrery, moved by a weight, and keeping time, which was sent, in 1232, by the Sultan of Egypt, as a present to the Emperor Frederic II.

1889 7th Ann. Rep. State Board Health Indiana 191 A wooden-wheeled clock, nearly a century old, which kept very poor time.

1923 R. L. Cassie Heart or Heid 18 That great neep o' a watch o' yours wunna keep time.

1973 J. Wainwright Touch of Malice 97 It was a good clock..and, apart from power cuts, it kept perfect time.

2005 Driven Oct. 20/2 You can buy a Timex and it will keep better time than a $10,000 Patek Philippe.

(ii) To be punctual; to be on time. Also with qualification: to be good, bad, etc., with regard to punctuality.

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1602 tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido iv. vii. sig. M2 Great fortune that my father me detain'd So with a tedious stay, as then me thought, Had I kept time but as Lisetta bad, Surely some strange aduenture had I had.

1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. ix. 63 They..sometimes have charged me with a lye for not punctually keeping time, though hindred.

1796 G. Colman Iron Chest ii. v. 74 2d Rob. None of our comrades come yet? They will be finely soak'd. 1st Rob. Aye, the rain pours like a spout upon the ruins of the old abbey wall here. Jud. I'm glad on't. May it drench them, and breed agues! 'twill teach them to keep time.

1838 Bentley's Misc. July 45 He had to keep good time in arriving at the canal.

1865 H. Merritt Robert Dalby & his World of Troubles xxviii. 134 ‘How was it you managed to keep bad time, boy?’.. ‘I have had to run of errands between school hours, sir.’

1874 Times 4 Nov. 6/5 The Pullman train..keeps time to a minute.

1908 Cassier's Mag. Mar. 563/2 The loafer, if he keeps good time, as surely obtains his bonus as the diligent and skillful workman.

1942 Rev. Econ. Stud. 9 172 Where discipline is slack, one sometimes finds whole shops keeping bad time.

2009 C. O. N. Moser Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives x. 218 There is a far greater responsibility to keep time, to work hard, and to change your work ethic.

(c) Of a person: to record or monitor time elapsed, worked, etc.; to act as a timekeeper at a sporting event, workplace, etc.; cf. timekeeper n. 3.

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1805 Sporting Mag. Dec. 129/1 He can't have lost the battle [i.e. a boxing match]—or if he has, it is not by giving in, but for want of keeping time between the rounds.

1838 Rep. Select Comm. Educ. Poorer Classes 64 in Parl. Papers VII. 157 The law..insists upon a room being supplied with books, and a man to keep time for the children, to certify that they have been there two hours a day.

1888 Post Office Buildings (41st U.S. Congr. 2nd Sess. H. R. Rep. No. 58) 58 If the man appointed to keep time at the quarry should conspire with the contractor at the quarry, is not the government at their mercy in regard to being cheated?

1901 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 7 356/2 It was my daily duty to keep time and to ‘sub’ for some hundreds of men engaged on extensive railway..works in England.

1972 Black Belt Mar. 29/2 Keeping time with a stopwatch teaches arithmetic.

1999 Grimsby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 3 Apr. 31 Which referee would keep time and how would they be able to communicate with each other to ensure the correct amount of time was played?

单词	to keep time
释义	> as lemmas to keep time h. to keep time. Also with modifying adjective. (a) (i) To adhere to the correct rhythm in the performance of a piece of music, a dance, or other rhythmic activity; to keep pace with a beat, another performer, etc. (also with to). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [verb (intransitive)] > keep time to keep timea1527 a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 479 Who so lyst to handill an instrument so goode Must se in his many fyngerynge þ^t he kepe tyme stop and moode. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. v. 43 Keepe time, how sowre sweete Musicke is When time is broke, and no proportion kept. View more context for this quotation 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. ii. sig. B4 Slow, Slow Fresh fount, keepe time with my salt teares. View more context for this quotation 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche vi. clvii. 86/2 Though she kept slow time, yet she sung true. a1657 C. Croke Fortune's Uncertainty (1667) 84 They all plaid on the Guittar and Cittern, and the irrational Animals prettily kept time to their musical Notes. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) When, in galloping, the hind quarters follow and keep time with the fore. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. vii. 177 They keep time with such exactness, that 60 or 100 paddles..make only a single report. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lx. 31 I can't well break it, But must keep time and tune like public singers. 1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. 330 He puts on it first his right and then his left foot, gradually quickening his steps, keeping time to the words. 1928 Daily Express 22 June 11/3 There is the ‘piaffe’ in which the horses keep time without advancing. 1975 P. Kronhausen & E. Kronhausen Sex People iii. 23 She went into a thumping, shimmying..bump-and-grind routine that kept perfect time with the music. 2003 Vogue Aug. 320 (caption) Rose-cheeked Scottish maids who sang folk ballads in unison to keep time with one another as they passed the fabric from one hand to hand. (ii) To mark the rhythm or pulse of a musical performance by movements of the hand, a baton, etc.; = to beat time at beat v.¹ 32. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous [verb (intransitive)] > keep time with to keep stotc1590 to keep stroke16.. to keep time1658 to beat time1694 time1830 synchronize1867 simultane1880 1658 J. Playford Breif Introd. Skill Musick (new ed.) i. viii. 24 In the Keeping your Time your hand goes up at one Minum and down at the other. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 22 Nov. (1971) IV. 394 The King is a little Musicall, and kept good time with his hand all along the Anthem. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 503. ⁋2 Now the Organ was to play a Voluntary, and she..kept time..with some Motion of her Head. 1835 A. Smith Diary 10 Dec. (1940) II. 298 She kept time with her fingers by beating upon the dried lambskin... This..furnished delightful music. 1897 R. Jay Missionary Family 255 No sooner..did the voluntary begin, than the little feet were on the move, keeping brisk time against the front of the pew. 1908 King's Royal Rifle Corps Chron. 1907 48 He himself played a cornet, with which he conducted..; he kept time by stamping with his right foot. 1989 T. Kidder Among Schoolchildren vii. i. 233 Judith's father kept time on a güiro. 2004 Mod. Drummer June 144/3 The idea of playing phrases as opposed to just keeping time, setting the meter, or establishing an underbed for the other bandmembers to play off of. (b) (i) Of a timepiece: to register the passage of time well, badly, etc.; (without qualification) to do this correctly or reliably. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [verb (intransitive)] > be accurate to keep timea1582 a1582 W. Bourne Inuentions or Deuises (?1590) cxiii. 98 It hath bene done by wheeles, as you may see by clockes, that doo keepe tyme, some goyng with plummets, and some with springs. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation i. vii. 70 Our body is as a well-set clock which keeps good time. 1714 W. Derham Artific. Clock-maker (ed. 3) v. 71 This Clock having for some Years kept time as well as could be expected, I hung upon its Weight an Addition of 6 Pound. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 68/1 None of them [sc. spring clocks and watches] can be so sufficiently adjusted as to keep Time to Exactness. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xvii. 189 An orrery, moved by a weight, and keeping time, which was sent, in 1232, by the Sultan of Egypt, as a present to the Emperor Frederic II. 1889 7th Ann. Rep. State Board Health Indiana 191 A wooden-wheeled clock, nearly a century old, which kept very poor time. 1923 R. L. Cassie Heart or Heid 18 That great neep o' a watch o' yours wunna keep time. 1973 J. Wainwright Touch of Malice 97 It was a good clock..and, apart from power cuts, it kept perfect time. 2005 Driven Oct. 20/2 You can buy a Timex and it will keep better time than a $10,000 Patek Philippe. (ii) To be punctual; to be on time. Also with qualification: to be good, bad, etc., with regard to punctuality. ΚΠ 1602 tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido iv. vii. sig. M2 Great fortune that my father me detain'd So with a tedious stay, as then me thought, Had I kept time but as Lisetta bad, Surely some strange aduenture had I had. 1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. ix. 63 They..sometimes have charged me with a lye for not punctually keeping time, though hindred. 1796 G. Colman Iron Chest ii. v. 74 2d Rob. None of our comrades come yet? They will be finely soak'd. 1st Rob. Aye, the rain pours like a spout upon the ruins of the old abbey wall here. Jud. I'm glad on't. May it drench them, and breed agues! 'twill teach them to keep time. 1838 Bentley's Misc. July 45 He had to keep good time in arriving at the canal. 1865 H. Merritt Robert Dalby & his World of Troubles xxviii. 134 ‘How was it you managed to keep bad time, boy?’.. ‘I have had to run of errands between school hours, sir.’ 1874 Times 4 Nov. 6/5 The Pullman train..keeps time to a minute. 1908 Cassier's Mag. Mar. 563/2 The loafer, if he keeps good time, as surely obtains his bonus as the diligent and skillful workman. 1942 Rev. Econ. Stud. 9 172 Where discipline is slack, one sometimes finds whole shops keeping bad time. 2009 C. O. N. Moser Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives x. 218 There is a far greater responsibility to keep time, to work hard, and to change your work ethic. (c) Of a person: to record or monitor time elapsed, worked, etc.; to act as a timekeeper at a sporting event, workplace, etc.; cf. timekeeper n. 3. ΚΠ 1805 Sporting Mag. Dec. 129/1 He can't have lost the battle [i.e. a boxing match]—or if he has, it is not by giving in, but for want of keeping time between the rounds. 1838 Rep. Select Comm. Educ. Poorer Classes 64 in Parl. Papers VII. 157 The law..insists upon a room being supplied with books, and a man to keep time for the children, to certify that they have been there two hours a day. 1888 Post Office Buildings (41st U.S. Congr. 2nd Sess. H. R. Rep. No. 58) 58 If the man appointed to keep time at the quarry should conspire with the contractor at the quarry, is not the government at their mercy in regard to being cheated? 1901 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 7 356/2 It was my daily duty to keep time and to ‘sub’ for some hundreds of men engaged on extensive railway..works in England. 1972 Black Belt Mar. 29/2 Keeping time with a stopwatch teaches arithmetic. 1999 Grimsby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 3 Apr. 31 Which referee would keep time and how would they be able to communicate with each other to ensure the correct amount of time was played? extracted from timen.int.conj. < as lemmas
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