释义 |
keep oneself to oneself, to keep oneself to oneselfto remain aloof. He does tend to keep himself to himself. Keep yourself to yourself, and you'll be all right there.See also: keepkeep oneself to oneselfsee under keep to oneself. See also: keepkeep oneself to oneself, toTo be reserved and aloof, avoiding the company of others. Samuel Richardson used this phrase in Clarissa (1748), and it was repeated by numerous writers, some of whom pointed out that it was a quintessentially English form of behavior. “He kept, in popular parlance, himself to himself. Like many policemen, Dunday thought,” wrote British novelist Robert Barnard (Death and the Chaste Apprentice, 1989).See also: keep |