| 释义 |
keep someone down1Make a pupil repeat a year at school because of poor marks: is a child who fails a year test to be kept down?...- It is extended to students somewhat forcibly, to attend morning school during the long vacation to avoid being kept down the following year.
- Unfortunately, by comparison with the other students, I was quite backward, and so bad at mathematics in particular that I was kept down an entire year.
- I was that disruptive in class that they kept me down a level.
2Cause someone to remain in a state of oppression or subjection: one day, it would be impossible that fine people like Philip would be kept down...- Even an investigation by the Inland Revenue's special compliance unit and a brain tumour could not keep him down.
- He was out there to prove that nothing was going to keep him down and full credit to him.
- Work is shown as unremitting drudgery, keeping us down and continually reminding us of our essential failure.
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