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单词 to keep an eye on
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to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)
(a) to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon): to keep watch upon, to observe carefully, esp. either to provide care and support or because of suspicion or mistrust; to be wary of; (hence also) to desire or intend to obtain; to approve of. Also with modifying word, as watchful, weather (see weather-eye n.). Cf. to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye after at Phrases 2l(b).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > watch or observe
keepc1000
overseeOE
waitc1300
advisec1325
awaita1375
to wait on ——c1384
markc1400
contemplec1429
to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)a1450
to look straitly to?c1450
to wait after ——c1460
vizy1488
contemplatea1533
vise1551
pry?1553
observe1567
eye1592
over-eye?1592
watch1600
outwatch1607
spell1633
superintend1654
under-watch1654
tent1721
evigilate1727
twig1764
stag1796
eye-serve1800
spy1806
deek1825
screw1905
clock1911
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)]
biwitieOE
to look to ——c1330
watchc1330
to make or lay await onc1386
markc1400
to wait to ——c1440
to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)a1450
waken1535
to look unto ——1594
to carry a wary (also watchful, etc.) eye on (also upon)1596
to look after ——a1616
overwatch1618
snokea1652
to look up1855
surveil1960
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl.) (1981) l. 40 Euer ha hefde on hali writ ehnen oðer heorte.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xvii. 316 A seruaunt..haþ ȝe and hond apon his lord to do what likeþ and plesiþ his lorde.
a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 3934 (MED) Segryne had euer on him his eye.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. i. sig. Bb.iiiv/1 Let this be the rule for him to keepe his eye vpon in all businesse & affaires of his science.
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles iii. i. sig. F 1 Rin. What would he be, If you should not restrayne him by good connsell? Gost. Ile haue an eye on him, I warrant thee.
1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xviii. 211 It was supposed the Earle of Essex had an eie upon Oxford.
1778 J. R. Forster Observ. Voy. round World vi. 390 I..went where he called me, but kept an eye on O-Too's sister, who immediately seized two large ten inch spikes.
1800 J. Stuart in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 569 An advertency to the former periods of history..ought to caution us to keep a watchful eye on this quarter.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 64 I shall keep my eye upon them.
1877 Independent 23 Aug. 20/2 The Devil already controls Chicago, and we have heard it intimated that he has his eye on New York.
1900 H. James Notebks. (1947) 398 Chad has meanwhile continued to deny..that he has his eye on Mlle de Vionnet, that her mother has..hers on him.
1945 E. Bowen Demon Lover 92 I needn't exactly hurry. I just ought to keep an eye on the time.
1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 319 You asked me to keep an eye on that Larrie Rourke.
2010 Independent 17 Aug. 33/3 My disabled mother lives with us so he keeps an eye on her, which is a definite help.
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