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单词 to keep rank
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to keep rank
a. to keep rank: to stay in line or order; (figurative) to maintain solidarity, to conform.
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1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. xxxv. 195 This is the day when dicing, dancing, whoring, and such noisome and dishonest demeanours, muster their bands and keep ranke togither.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Chron. xii. 33 Fifty thousand, which could keep rank . View more context for this quotation
1652 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xxi. 322 The carnall minde neither will, nor can keep rank as an obedient souldier.
1735 L. Theobald Fatal Secret iv. i. 33 My Life keeps Rank with yours.
1861 E. Atherstone Israel in Egypt xviii. 304 Keep rank no longer: fly as best ye may.
1880 R. Browning Echetlos ii No man but..kept rank and fought away In his tribe and file.
1900 K. L. Bates Spanish Highways & Byways i. 7 The entire line, keeping rank, curves and twists behind the leader.
1972 Times 24 May 16/2 Even the Unionist MP's at Westminster cannot keep rank.
1995 D. McLintock tr. C. Meier Caesar xi. 281 The fighting was fierce; they could not stand firm or keep rank.
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