| 单词 | to keep body and soul together |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep body (†life) and soul together 1. transitive. To cause to remain in association or union. to keep body (†life) and soul together: to keep (oneself) alive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [verb (transitive)] > sustain life sustainc1330 lead?a1366 finda1450 sustentate1542 breast1573 subsist1612 to keep body (life) and soul togethera1616 preserve1694 to eke out1825 society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] > keep together to keep togethera1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 48 Clo. Would not a paire of these haue bred sir? Vio. Yes being kept together, and put to vse. View more context for this quotation 1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xv. 301 The Vascons once with Man's Flesh (as 'tis sed) Kept Life and Soul together. 1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 i. 43 It is a poor loose sand..only kept together by the roots of the sea-bent. 1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 54/2 How on earth they managed to keep body and soul together. 1901 N.E.D. at Keep Mod. ‘A hard struggle to keep body and soul together.’ < as lemmas |
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