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单词 keep it up
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keep it up
6. To maintain, continue, go on with (an action or course of action). Esp. in keep it up; spec. to prolong a party, drinking-spree, etc.; to ‘live it up’.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > continue (an action) [verb (transitive)]
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to hold fortha1325
sustainc1325
containc1330
continuea1340
maintainc1385
carrya1393
keepc1425
to keep upa1535
to stick by ——1551
to hold on1568
to hold out1595
to carry on1609
subsist1633
to keep at ——1825
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > prolong a party, drinking spree, etc.
keep it up1752
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 53/1 For his dissimulacion onelye kepte all that mischyefe vppe.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 51. ⁋2 The Difficulty of keeping up a sprightly Dialogue for five Acts together.
1752 J. Millward Let. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) II. ii. xxxiv. 250 When they [sc. the Welsh] get in liquor they are very troublesome and noisy. They kept it up all night.
1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Hist. Europe 16/1 Continual firing..was kept up during the day.
1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) To keep it up, to prolong a debauch. We kept it up finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game at shuttlecock.
1801 Farmer's Ha' (new ed.) lxiii. 62 Clear-blooded health..flees awa' frae keeping 't up, and midnight riot.
1810 M. van H. Dwight Jrnl. 28 Oct. in Journey to Ohio (1912) 16 The men dress much better—they put on their best cloaths on sunday,..& ‘keep it up’ as they call it.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers lii. 565 We were keeping it up pretty tolerably at the Stump last night, and I'm rather out of sorts this morning.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xiv. 367 The fight is kept up till night-fall.
1874 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 76 There were forty-six people and we kept it up till one... I had several good valses.
1890 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 11 He and I have kept up a correspondence.
1958 A. Huxley Let. 11 Jan. (1969) 842 Thank you for your long and very interesting letter—written, too, in the most wonderfully black ink... Keep it up!
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