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

(a) to keep company (with).

(i) To associate or socialize (with); to be or stay together (with), esp. in a social context. Also in extended use. [Compare Middle French tenir compagnie à quelqu'un (c1175 in Old French).]

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)]

seeOE

to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225

mella1300

fellowshipa1382

companya1400

accompany1461

to keep company (with)1502

encompanya1513

to keep (a person) company1517

to take repast1517

assist1553

to take up with1570

rempare1581

to go along with1588

amate1590

bear1590

to fall in1593

consort1598

second1600

to walk (also travel) in the way with1611

comitate1632

associate1644

enhaunt1658

join1713

assort1823

sit1828

companionize1870

to take tea with1888

to knock about with1915

tote1977

fere-

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)]

seeOE

drawc1275

mella1300

meeta1325

fellow1340

usec1384

conjoinc1386

joinc1390

knitc1400

accompany1461

enfellowship1470

frequent1477

haunt1477

mixa1513

encompanya1533

combinea1535

contract1548

to take with ——1562

associate1581

to have a saying toa1593

cope1594

sort1594

to take in1597

consort1600

herd1606

factionate1611

to keep company (with)a1616

accost1633

solder1641

converse1649

walk1650

consociate1653

coalite1734

to get with ——a1772

forgather1786

unionize1810

to go rounda1867

to mix in1870

cop1940

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. ix. sig. l.iv The counseyll of the wyse Salomon is that as with detractours no man kepe company with wordes [Fr. que a detracteurs null y ne tienne compaignie ou paroles].

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. vi^v/2 The kyng sent..a great ambassade to sir John of Heynault..to kepe company with hym in his voiage agaynst the Scottis.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. ii. 66 The Gentleman is of no hauing, hee kept companie with the wilde Prince.

a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) x. 82 Man being..as that sacred Oratour termes him, a congregating Creature that loves to keep company.

1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 10 May (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1729 Sir Charles Hotham is gauche; it is to be hoped that will mend with keeping company.

1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xvi. 97 I never kept company with any such gentry.

1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors xiii. 205 The meeting, exchanging visits, and keeping company of..a sociable family of whales.

1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab xiii. 236 The oleanders and the water always keeping company, and preserving each other.

1932 Boston Globe 29 Sept. 29/2 Mr Potter diffidently suggested they should keep company together a ‘small ways’.

1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) xii. 198 This is where he'll be tonight keeping company with the rough element.

(ii) Originally: to have sexual intercourse (with); cf. sense 2b. In later use: to have a romantic relationship, engage in courting (with) (now colloquial or regional).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or engage in courtship [verb (intransitive)]

to make love1567

address1677

to keep company (with)1725

suitor1777

spark1807

pitch1903

to pitch (the) woo1935

1529 tr. M. Luther in tr. Erasmus Exhort. Studye Script. sig. E.viii Yee in y^t he bindeth & compelleth them to love a newe eche other and kepe company agayne [Ger. Ja auch da mit zwingt und dringet widder zu samen sich vereynigen].

1592 A. Willet Synopsis Papismi Pref. to Rdr. sig. B^v The heretikes Abeliani thought it not lawfull for their sort to liue without wiues, and yet they neuer vsed, nor kept companie with their wiues.

?1625 F. Godwin Succession of Bishops of Eng. 279 Hee..liued all the Summer time at Somersham, keeping company much there with a certaine woman in very offensiue manner.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. Observ. 117 She could not approve of a young woman keeping company with men, without the permission of father or mother.

1833 T. H. Bayly Musings & Prosings 315 My daughter is as good as your son any day, and if the young folks wish to keep company, you are the last person that ought to object.

1861 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 112 The young women with whom I have (to adopt the term current in domestic service) ‘kept company’.

1951 S. H. Bell December Bride iii. ix. 284 Mr Skillen doesna' want his son to keep company with Martha.

1984 Orange Coast May 37/3 She told a local reporter that she hasn't ‘kept company’ with a man since 1978.

1999 T. Winter House Arrest (HBO TV shooting script) 43 in Sopranos 2nd Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) There was a girl. We kept company for a while.

(b) to keep (a person) company.

(i) To be or stay with (a person) as a companion; to accompany. Also in extended use. Cf. to bear (a person) company at bear v.¹ Phrases 1d.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)]

seeOE

to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225

mella1300

fellowshipa1382

companya1400

accompany1461

to keep company (with)1502

encompanya1513

to keep (a person) company1517

to take repast1517

assist1553

to take up with1570

rempare1581

to go along with1588

amate1590

bear1590

to fall in1593

consort1598

second1600

to walk (also travel) in the way with1611

comitate1632

associate1644

enhaunt1658

join1713

assort1823

sit1828

companionize1870

to take tea with1888

to knock about with1915

tote1977

fere-

the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > accompany or attend [verb (transitive)]

followeOE

to be with1382

to stand with ——1384

fellowship?c1400

fellow1434

encompanya1513

to go with ——1523

to come with ——1533

accompany1543

associate1548

affellowship1559

to wait on ——1579

concomitate1604

second1609

companion1622

comitate1632

attend1653

waita1674

to keep (a person) company1849

1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) ii. 16 These grehounde shall kepe you company.

1581 W. Goodyear tr. J. de Cartigny Voy. Wandering Knight iii. viii. 114 Then Faith led me to hir Tower, and all the other vertues kept vs company.

1666 N. Foxcroft Let. 11 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 223 A shoale of Albicor's & Bonitoes (fish so call'd) undertooke us, & kept us Company.

1714 D. Manley Adventures of Rivella 78 Miserable Cleander kept him Company, for fear he should get some of his old Gang, who were Spies gain'd by Lord Crafty.

1788 C. Smith Emmeline I. ii. 26 Now my dear Miss, perhaps, may'nt be so shy and distant, as she have got another woman body to keep her company.

1849 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 4 Dec. (1954) I. 321 If you are anxious to publish the translation in question I could..finish the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus to keep it company.

1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 72 It is her place to keep me company.

1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xiv His plausibility won me to keep him company even so far as Phoenicia.

1984 G. Vanderhaeghe My Present Age (1986) i. 3 My radio blaring away keeping me company.

2007 Independent 12 Feb. (Extra section) 6/1 Someone to warm his slippers and keep him company while he wields the remote and puts his feet up.

(ii) To join (a person, etc.) in an activity, esp. for the sake of friendship or to please someone; to be sociable.

ΚΠ

1705 S. Centlivre Gamester v. 57 I shall be as slender as a Hasel-Switch in a little time then, for I suppose I must keep you Company in that thin diet.

1729 T. Stackhouse Compl. Body Divinity v. ii. 918 The Drunkard, for instance, thinks him his Friend, who will..keep him Company in his Debauches.

1862 Harper's Mag. July 156/2 He whistled, sang lively snatches of song, joked with the horse, and when the horse nickered laughed a young horse-laugh to keep him company.

1884 A. Stewart Freddy's Dream iv. 43 He felt as if he must join in their song to keep them company.

1913 K. Tynan Twenty-five Years xxvi. 321 I never became a smoker, although I smoked to keep my friends company.

1993 M. Cohen Bookseller i. 12 I had only been drinking gin fizz to keep him company while he drank more.

2009 L. Weber If you live like Me (2010) iv. 83 I wonder if he wore black just to keep me company.

单词	to keep company
释义	> as lemmas to keep company (with) (a) to keep company (with). (i) To associate or socialize (with); to be or stay together (with), esp. in a social context. Also in extended use. [Compare Middle French tenir compagnie à quelqu'un (c1175 in Old French).] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225 mella1300 fellowshipa1382 companya1400 accompany1461 to keep company (with)1502 encompanya1513 to keep (a person) company1517 to take repast1517 assist1553 to take up with1570 rempare1581 to go along with1588 amate1590 bear1590 to fall in1593 consort1598 second1600 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 comitate1632 associate1644 enhaunt1658 join1713 assort1823 sit1828 companionize1870 to take tea with1888 to knock about with1915 tote1977 fere- society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE drawc1275 mella1300 meeta1325 fellow1340 usec1384 conjoinc1386 joinc1390 knitc1400 accompany1461 enfellowship1470 frequent1477 haunt1477 mixa1513 encompanya1533 combinea1535 contract1548 to take with ——1562 associate1581 to have a saying toa1593 cope1594 sort1594 to take in1597 consort1600 herd1606 factionate1611 to keep company (with)a1616 accost1633 solder1641 converse1649 walk1650 consociate1653 coalite1734 to get with ——a1772 forgather1786 unionize1810 to go rounda1867 to mix in1870 cop1940 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. ix. sig. l.iv The counseyll of the wyse Salomon is that as with detractours no man kepe company with wordes [Fr. que a detracteurs null y ne tienne compaignie ou paroles]. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. vi^v/2 The kyng sent..a great ambassade to sir John of Heynault..to kepe company with hym in his voiage agaynst the Scottis. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. ii. 66 The Gentleman is of no hauing, hee kept companie with the wilde Prince. View more context for this quotation a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) x. 82 Man being..as that sacred Oratour termes him, a congregating Creature that loves to keep company. 1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 10 May (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1729 Sir Charles Hotham is gauche; it is to be hoped that will mend with keeping company. 1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xvi. 97 I never kept company with any such gentry. 1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors xiii. 205 The meeting, exchanging visits, and keeping company of..a sociable family of whales. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab xiii. 236 The oleanders and the water always keeping company, and preserving each other. 1932 Boston Globe 29 Sept. 29/2 Mr Potter diffidently suggested they should keep company together a ‘small ways’. 1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) xii. 198 This is where he'll be tonight keeping company with the rough element. (ii) Originally: to have sexual intercourse (with); cf. sense 2b. In later use: to have a romantic relationship, engage in courting (with) (now colloquial or regional). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or engage in courtship [verb (intransitive)] to make love1567 address1677 to keep company (with)1725 suitor1777 spark1807 pitch1903 to pitch (the) woo1935 1529 tr. M. Luther in tr. Erasmus Exhort. Studye Script. sig. E.viii Yee in y^t he bindeth & compelleth them to love a newe eche other and kepe company agayne [Ger. Ja auch da mit zwingt und dringet widder zu samen sich vereynigen]. 1592 A. Willet Synopsis Papismi Pref. to Rdr. sig. B^v The heretikes Abeliani thought it not lawfull for their sort to liue without wiues, and yet they neuer vsed, nor kept companie with their wiues. ?1625 F. Godwin Succession of Bishops of Eng. 279 Hee..liued all the Summer time at Somersham, keeping company much there with a certaine woman in very offensiue manner. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. Observ. 117 She could not approve of a young woman keeping company with men, without the permission of father or mother. 1833 T. H. Bayly Musings & Prosings 315 My daughter is as good as your son any day, and if the young folks wish to keep company, you are the last person that ought to object. 1861 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 112 The young women with whom I have (to adopt the term current in domestic service) ‘kept company’. 1951 S. H. Bell December Bride iii. ix. 284 Mr Skillen doesna' want his son to keep company with Martha. 1984 Orange Coast May 37/3 She told a local reporter that she hasn't ‘kept company’ with a man since 1978. 1999 T. Winter House Arrest (HBO TV shooting script) 43 in Sopranos 2nd Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) There was a girl. We kept company for a while. extracted from companyn. to keep (a person) company (b) to keep (a person) company. (i) To be or stay with (a person) as a companion; to accompany. Also in extended use. Cf. to bear (a person) company at bear v.¹ Phrases 1d. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225 mella1300 fellowshipa1382 companya1400 accompany1461 to keep company (with)1502 encompanya1513 to keep (a person) company1517 to take repast1517 assist1553 to take up with1570 rempare1581 to go along with1588 amate1590 bear1590 to fall in1593 consort1598 second1600 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 comitate1632 associate1644 enhaunt1658 join1713 assort1823 sit1828 companionize1870 to take tea with1888 to knock about with1915 tote1977 fere- the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > accompany or attend [verb (transitive)] followeOE to be with1382 to stand with ——1384 fellowship?c1400 fellow1434 encompanya1513 to go with ——1523 to come with ——1533 accompany1543 associate1548 affellowship1559 to wait on ——1579 concomitate1604 second1609 companion1622 comitate1632 attend1653 waita1674 to keep (a person) company1849 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) ii. 16 These grehounde shall kepe you company. 1581 W. Goodyear tr. J. de Cartigny Voy. Wandering Knight iii. viii. 114 Then Faith led me to hir Tower, and all the other vertues kept vs company. 1666 N. Foxcroft Let. 11 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 223 A shoale of Albicor's & Bonitoes (fish so call'd) undertooke us, & kept us Company. 1714 D. Manley Adventures of Rivella 78 Miserable Cleander kept him Company, for fear he should get some of his old Gang, who were Spies gain'd by Lord Crafty. 1788 C. Smith Emmeline I. ii. 26 Now my dear Miss, perhaps, may'nt be so shy and distant, as she have got another woman body to keep her company. 1849 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 4 Dec. (1954) I. 321 If you are anxious to publish the translation in question I could..finish the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus to keep it company. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 72 It is her place to keep me company. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xiv His plausibility won me to keep him company even so far as Phoenicia. 1984 G. Vanderhaeghe My Present Age (1986) i. 3 My radio blaring away keeping me company. 2007 Independent 12 Feb. (Extra section) 6/1 Someone to warm his slippers and keep him company while he wields the remote and puts his feet up. (ii) To join (a person, etc.) in an activity, esp. for the sake of friendship or to please someone; to be sociable. ΚΠ 1705 S. Centlivre Gamester v. 57 I shall be as slender as a Hasel-Switch in a little time then, for I suppose I must keep you Company in that thin diet. 1729 T. Stackhouse Compl. Body Divinity v. ii. 918 The Drunkard, for instance, thinks him his Friend, who will..keep him Company in his Debauches. 1862 Harper's Mag. July 156/2 He whistled, sang lively snatches of song, joked with the horse, and when the horse nickered laughed a young horse-laugh to keep him company. 1884 A. Stewart Freddy's Dream iv. 43 He felt as if he must join in their song to keep them company. 1913 K. Tynan Twenty-five Years xxvi. 321 I never became a smoker, although I smoked to keep my friends company. 1993 M. Cohen Bookseller i. 12 I had only been drinking gin fizz to keep him company while he drank more. 2009 L. Weber If you live like Me (2010) iv. 83 I wonder if he wore black just to keep me company. extracted from companyn. < as lemmas
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