英语词汇“to keep abreast of”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. figurative. (So as to be) on equal terms with, not bettered by; not overwhelmed by, ‘on top of’; (in later use esp.) up to date with, informed about. Frequently to keep abreast of.

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1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxv. 232 More learning would be of more pains, and the same profit, seeing the mediocriter goeth abreast with optime.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Shrop. 9 Though some conceive him to be as much beneath a Poet, as above a Rhimer, in my opinion his Verses may go abreast with any of that age.

1832 W. Scott Redgauntlet (new ed.) I. p. xxi The compromises by which they endeavoured to keep themselves abreast of the current of the day.

1845 J. R. Lowell Pres. Crisis in Wks. (1879) 671 They must upward still, and onward, Who would keep abreast of truth.

1850 E. B. Bryan Rightful Remedy 76 With the general government cruelly oppressing her [sc. the South],..the only wonder is that she has been able to keep breast with other nations.

1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) iii. 59 Nothing else could have enabled him to keep abreast with the flood of communications that poured in.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula xx. 274 I had written my diary so far, and simply read it off to them as the best means of letting them get abreast of my own information.

1930 Musical Times 71 559/1 Like so many Italian composers, Verdi regarded himself primarily as a craftsman whose duty it was to keep himself abreast with the times.

1963 J. N. Jackson Surv. Town & Country Planning ii. 33 The problems of keeping abreast with current knowledge and thought in a new discipline are particularly difficult.

1991 Hindu (Madras) 6 Dec. 7/1 The private sector may soon get into all areas of the Indian Railways as part of the endeavour of the organisation to keep abreast with the changes in the economy.

2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) xvii. 184 Bella had managed to keep me vaguely abreast of fashion by taking me shopping with her and kitting me out.

单词	to keep abreast of
释义	> as lemmas to keep abreast of b. figurative. (So as to be) on equal terms with, not bettered by; not overwhelmed by, ‘on top of’; (in later use esp.) up to date with, informed about. Frequently to keep abreast of. ΚΠ 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxv. 232 More learning would be of more pains, and the same profit, seeing the mediocriter goeth abreast with optime. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Shrop. 9 Though some conceive him to be as much beneath a Poet, as above a Rhimer, in my opinion his Verses may go abreast with any of that age. 1832 W. Scott Redgauntlet (new ed.) I. p. xxi The compromises by which they endeavoured to keep themselves abreast of the current of the day. 1845 J. R. Lowell Pres. Crisis in Wks. (1879) 671 They must upward still, and onward, Who would keep abreast of truth. 1850 E. B. Bryan Rightful Remedy 76 With the general government cruelly oppressing her [sc. the South],..the only wonder is that she has been able to keep breast with other nations. 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) iii. 59 Nothing else could have enabled him to keep abreast with the flood of communications that poured in. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xx. 274 I had written my diary so far, and simply read it off to them as the best means of letting them get abreast of my own information. 1930 Musical Times 71 559/1 Like so many Italian composers, Verdi regarded himself primarily as a craftsman whose duty it was to keep himself abreast with the times. 1963 J. N. Jackson Surv. Town & Country Planning ii. 33 The problems of keeping abreast with current knowledge and thought in a new discipline are particularly difficult. 1991 Hindu (Madras) 6 Dec. 7/1 The private sector may soon get into all areas of the Indian Railways as part of the endeavour of the organisation to keep abreast with the changes in the economy. 2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) xvii. 184 Bella had managed to keep me vaguely abreast of fashion by taking me shopping with her and kitting me out. extracted from abreastadv.prep. < as lemmas
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