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You can picture closing your hand around something and not letting it change or get away — holding it steady. That one move, 'make it stay,' is the heart of keep, and it reaches in several directions. Hold a STATE steady (keep warm, keep the door shut) or hold an ACTION going (keep walking). Hold an OBJECT — don't give it back, don't lose it, store it somewhere. Hold a PERSON in place — make them stay, make them wait, or hold them up by feeding and housing them. Hold something safe — guard it, watch over it, look after animals or a shop. And hold to your word — do what you promised, observe a rule, keep a secret, keep a record. The noun side is the same idea frozen: your keep is the food and housing that keeps you going, 'for keeps' means held forever, and a castle's keep is the strong tower that held people safe.

可以想成把手握住一樣東西,不讓它改變、也不讓它跑掉——穩穩握著。這一個「使它留住」的動作,就是 keep 的心臟,並…更多收起可以想成把手握住一樣東西,不讓它改變、也不讓它跑掉——穩穩握著。這一個「使它留住」的動作,就是 keep 的心臟,並且往好幾個方向伸展。可以握住一個「狀態」讓它不變(keep warm、keep the door shut),或握住一個「動作」讓它持續(keep walking);可以握住一樣「東西」——不還、不弄丟、收存起來;可以握住一個「人」——讓他留下、讓他等、或靠供他吃住把他撐住;可以把東西「守」好——看守、照看、養動物、顧店;也可以握住你的「承諾」——說到做到、遵守規矩、保守祕密、保存紀錄。名詞那邊是同一個想法被定格:你的 keep 是供你活下去的吃住,for keeps 是「永遠握著」,而城堡的 keep 是那座把人守在裡頭的堅固高塔。

原始詞典資料35 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Keepname

  • 1

    A surname.

keepverb詞源 1/kiːp/

  • 1

    To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.

    • to keep silence;  to keep possession
  • 2

    To remain faithful to a given promise or word.

    • to keep one's word;  to keep one's promise
    • Both day and night did we keep company.
  • 3

    To hold the status of something.

    • I keep a small stock of painkillers for emergencies.
    • I only meant to lend him the shirt at first, but it looked better on him than me, so I told him to keep it.
  • 4

    To hold the status of something.

    • I keep my specimens under glass to protect them.
    • The abundance of squirrels kept the dogs running for hours.
  • 5

    To hold the status of something.

    • I used to keep a diary.
  • 6

    To hold the status of something.

  • 7

    archaicTo hold the status of something.

    • Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad[…].
    • The wrathful skies / Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves.
  • 8

    To hold the status of something.

    • I keep my pet gerbil away from my brother.
    • Don't let me keep you; I know you have things to be doing.
另外 19 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To hold the status of something.

    • May the Lord keep you from harm.
    • cursse on thy cruell hond, / That twise hath sped; yet shall it not thee keepe / From the third brunt of this my fatall brond […]
  • 10

    To hold the status of something.

    • He kept a mistress for over ten years.
  • 11

    To hold the status of something.

    • He has been keeping orchids since retiring.
    • Here John had to keep cows with other boys, and they used to drive them to graze about the Nine-hills.
  • 12

    To hold the status of something.

    • I know that it's a secret / And that I gotta keep it / But I want the lights on / Yeah, I want the lights on
  • 13

    To hold the status of something.

    • like a pedant that keeps a school
    • They were honourably accompanied and with great estate brought to London, where euery of them kept house by himselfe.
  • 14

    To hold the status of something.

  • 15

    obsoleteTo hold or be held in a state.

    • She kept to her bed while the fever lasted.
    • Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps, / To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge; […]
  • 16

    To hold or be held in a state.

    • I keep taking the tablets, but to no avail.
    • Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
  • 17

    To hold or be held in a state.

    • Potatoes can keep if they are in a root cellar.
    • Latex paint won't keep indefinitely.
  • 18

    To hold or be held in a state.

    • The rabbit avoided detection by keeping still.
    • Keep calm! There's no need to panic.
  • 19

    obsoleteTo hold or be held in a state.

  • 20

    obsoleteTo wait for, keep watch for.

    • And thenne whan the damoysel knewe certaynly that he was not syre launcelot / thenne she took her leue and departed from hym / And thenne syre Trystram rode pryuely vnto the posterne where kepte hym la beale Isoud / and there she made hym good chere and thanked god of his good spede
  • 21

    ball-gamescricketgamesTo act as wicket-keeper.

    • Godfrey Evans kept for England for many years.
  • 22

    obsoleteTo take care; to be solicitous; to watch.

    • […] kepe that the lustes choke not the word of God that is sowen in vs,
  • 23

    obsoleteTo be in session; to take place.

    • School keeps today.
  • 24

    To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.

    • I have kept the faith: […]
    • Be strong, live happie, and love, but first of all / Him whom to love is to obey, and keep / His great command; […]
  • 25

    datedTo visit (a place) often; to frequent.

    • […] 'tis hallowed ground; No Maid seeks here her strayed Cow, or Sheep, Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep:
  • 26

    datedTo observe or celebrate (a holiday).

    • to keep the Sabbath
    • The feast of St. Stephen is kept on December 26.
  • 27

    To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.

    • Please keep these books.
    • […] semantic shift: e.g., to send (“to give a lift”), to keep (“to put away”), to hack (“to remove carefully,” e.g., tiles, plaster, etc.), knock (“to remove a dent from a car”), bluff (“to joke”), stay (“to live”) […]

keepnoun詞源 2/kiːp/

  • 1

    historicalThe main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.

  • 2

    The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.

    • He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep.
  • 3

    The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.

    • to be in good keep
  • 4

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

  • 5

    obsoleteThe act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.

    • So Sir Gareth strayned hym so that his olde wounde braste ayen on bledynge; but he was hote and corragyous and toke no kepe, but with his grete forse he strake downe the knyght[…].
    • Pan, thou god of shepherds all, / Which of our tender lambkins takest keep.
  • 6

    obsoleteThat which is kept in charge; a charge.

    • Often he used of his keep / A sacrifice to bring.
  • 7

    obsoleteA mistress (the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations).

    • My Darling Girl, In London the other day I heard a piece of news which may amuse you. The French girl who shot her so-called Egyptian prince and is going to be tried for murder, is the fancy woman who was the Prince's 'keep' in Paris during the war […]

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。