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单词 to keep one's bed
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to keep one's bed
P5. to keep one's bed: to remain in bed through sickness or other cause.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > be in ill health [verb (intransitive)] > be restrained by ill health
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to keep one's bed1534
to be or lie on one's back1841
1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Acts ix. 33 A certayne man whych had kepte hys bed viii. yere.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. E2v All this day the sluggard keepes his bed.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 110 To speak plainly, she keeps her bed.
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to keep one's bed
a. To stay or remain in, on, or at (a place); not to leave; esp. in to keep one's bed, to keep one's room (as in sickness); to keep the house. Cf. to keep to at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > remain in (a place)
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keep1413
to stick to ——1539
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xxii. 25 Thou kepyst now thy bed. Thyne ydlenes and slouthe hath this y bred.
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 1526 His doghtre Clarionas She kept the chambre, as Reason was.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xlix. 69 These engyns dyd cast night and day great stones..so that they within were fayne to kepe vautes and sellars.
1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Acts ix. 33 A certayne man whych had kepte hys bed viii. yere.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 4 Sundrie persons..kepe their houses, not mindinge to paie..their debts.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 40 The weather being hot, her highnes kept the Castl for coolness.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Titus) 343 The Aegyptian women ware no shoes, that they might the better keep home.
1667 Sir E. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 51 I have kept my chamber ever since last Tuesday.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. iv. 68 My poor mother is really ill, and keeps her room. View more context for this quotation
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 110 To speak plainly, she keeps her bed.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 2 In this the children play'd at keeping house.
1885 E. Lawless Millionaire's Cousin iv. 76 Am I bound to keep my own side of the partition?
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