| 词汇 | keep somebody/something ↔ down |
| 释义 | keep somebody/something ↔ downkeep somebody/something ↔ down phrasal verbphr v a) PREVENTto prevent the size, cost, or quantity of something from increasing or being too great 控制[限制]…增长 We need to keep costs down. 我们需要控制成本。 b) SICK/VOMITto succeed in keeping food in your stomach, instead of bringing it up again out of your mouth, when you are ill 使…不吐出，使…不呕吐 I could hardly keep anything down for about three days. 大概有三天时间，我几乎是吃什么吐什么。 c) used to ask someone to make less noise 使…安静点，使…轻声点 Keep your voice down – she’ll hear you! 小点声，她会听到的！ Can you keep it down – I’m trying to work. 你能不能安静一点，我要工作。 d) to prevent a group of people from becoming as successful and powerful as the other people in a society 压制，控制 Plantation owners kept slaves down by refusing them an education. 种植园主不让奴隶受教育，以此来控制他们。 Examples from the Corpus keep down• For most people a good book is a necessity when travelling, choose a paperback to keep the weight down.• He was all in favour of anything that kept their costs down.• Pete and Chrissie's baby couldn't keep its food down.• The turbocharger is water cooled and its vanes are small to keep inertia down.• You lose their attention if you keep staring down at the papers in your hand.• She forgot the excitement down below, she forgot the misunderstanding that had kept them silent down the gulch.• He kept his head down under fire, avoided trouble, trusted in luck to keep him alive.• Although the blown rubber keeps there weight down, wear patterns after 300 and 400 miles seem to bear out this view. keep it down• Stevens brought Sierra Leone down, Taylor keeps it down.• A lump came to my throat and I had to eat something to keep it down.• Can you girls keep it down?• Some one in the next room shrieked at her to keep it down.• You oughta learn to keep it down, boy.• I can't keep it down here with my wife and children.• May I keep it down here?• Keep it down! I'm trying to talk on the phone!• Hey you guys - keep it down, or Mom'll hear!• Some said she was obsessed with her weight and determined to keep it down to under six stones.• Keep it down, will you? We're trying to sleep. → keep somebody/something ↔ down at keep1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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