| 单词 | to keep together |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep together to keep together 1. transitive. To cause to remain in association or union. to keep body (†life) and soul together: to keep (oneself) alive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [verb (transitive)] > sustain life sustainc1330 lead?a1366 finda1450 sustentate1542 breast1573 subsist1612 to keep body (life) and soul togethera1616 preserve1694 to eke out1825 society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] > keep together to keep togethera1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 48 Clo. Would not a paire of these haue bred sir? Vio. Yes being kept together, and put to vse. View more context for this quotation 1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xv. 301 The Vascons once with Man's Flesh (as 'tis sed) Kept Life and Soul together. 1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 i. 43 It is a poor loose sand..only kept together by the roots of the sea-bent. 1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 54/2 How on earth they managed to keep body and soul together. 1901 N.E.D. at Keep Mod. ‘A hard struggle to keep body and soul together.’ 2. intransitive. To remain associated or united. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] > remain associated to keep together1560 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxxxv Let them..kepe together, and in no wise scatter abrode. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 102 Treason, and murther, euer kept together . View more context for this quotation 1768 J. Byron Narr. Patagonia 13 It did not become him to desert it as long as the ship kept together. 1820 W. Irving Little Britain in Sketch Bk. vii. 96 I have a particular respect for three or four high-backed, clawfooted chairs... They seem to me to keep together. < as lemmas |
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