| 单词 | to keep straight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep straight c. Of a person: Well-conducted, steady. Chiefly in to keep straight. Also, of a woman: Virtuous, chaste. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [adjective] > chaste > of women honesta1400 virtuousa1600 zoned1726 straight1893 tight-assed1903 1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. v. 70 If the right motives did not suffice to keep me straight..why then I should be..utterly good for nothing. 1868 A. L. Gordon Let. 6 Oct. in H. G. Turner & A. Sutherland Developm. Austral. Lit. (1898) 200 She tried hard to cheer me up and keep me straight. 1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City vi. 125 If only people ‘keep straight’ for the sake only of what other people say of them. 1886 ‘Ouida’ House Party (1887) vii. 163 Do you really think that to have any influence on English public life it is necessary..to keep so very straight, as regards women, I mean, you know? 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 May 5/1 Mr. Dolling amused his audience..by his description of a ‘straight girl,’ i.e., one a young fellow not merely walked out with, but intended to marry. 1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira 133 As God is my witness that girl is as straight as your sister. 1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 185 She..meant to marry him in two or three years, if he proved he could keep straight in the meanwhile. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert viii. 83 And, now Jim came to think of it, she had shown that she was ‘straight’. A woman who wasn't would have behaved—well, differently. to keep (someone) straight d. In colloquial phrases, as to get (something) straight, to make (something) clear, to reach an understanding; to keep (someone) straight, to keep (someone) informed. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person) to teach a person a thingc888 meanOE wiseOE sayOE wittera1225 tellc1225 do to witc1275 let witc1275 let seec1330 inform1384 form1399 lerea1400 to wit (a person) to saya1400 learn1425 advertise1431 givec1449 insense?c1450 instruct1489 ascertain1490 let1490 alighta1500 advert1511 signify1523 reform1535 advise1562 partake1565 resolve1568 to do to ware1594 to let into one's knowledge1596 intellect1599 possess1600 acquainta1616 alighten1615 recommenda1616 intelligence1637 apprise1694 appraise1706 introduce1741 avail1785 prime1791 document1807 to put up1811 to put a person au fait of1828 post1847 to keep (someone) straight1862 monish1866 to put next to1896 to put (one) wise (to)1896 voice1898 in the picture1900 to give (someone) a line on1903 to wise up1905 drum1908 hip1932 to fill (someone) in on1945 clue1948 background1961 to mark a person's card1961 to loop in1994 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)] > reach understanding of conceive1340 grope1390 tellc1390 catchc1475 reacha1500 make1531 to make sense of1574 to make outa1625 apprehend1631 realize1742 finda1834 reify1854 recognize1879 to get (something) straight1920 to pick up1946 to work out1953 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > expound, explain [verb (transitive)] arecchec885 unloukOE overrunOE sutelec1000 trahtnec1000 unfolda1050 belayc1175 openc1175 onopena1200 accountc1300 undo?a1366 remenea1382 interpret1382 unwrap1387 exploitc1390 enlumine1393 declarec1400 expoundc1400 unplait?c1400 enperc1420 planea1425 clearc1440 exponec1440 to lay outc1440 to give (also carry) lightc1449 unwind1482 expose1483 reducea1500 manifest1530 explicate1531 explaina1535 unlock?1536 dilucidate1538 elucidate1538 illustrate1538 rechec1540 explicate1543 illucidate1545 enucleate1548 unsnarl1555 commonstrate1563 to lay forth1577 straighten1577 unbroid1577 untwist1577 decipherc1586 illuminate1586 enlighten1587 resolvec1592 cipher1594 eliquidate1596 to take (a person) with one1599 rivelc1600 ravel1604 unbowel1606 unmist1611 extricate1614 unbolta1616 untanglea1616 enode1623 unperplexa1631 perspicuate1634 explata1637 unravel1637 esclarea1639 clarify1642 unweave1642 detenebrate1646 dismystery1652 undecipher1654 unfork1654 unparadox1654 reflect1655 enodate1656 unmysterya1661 liquidatea1670 recognize1676 to clear upa1691 to throw sidelight on1726 to throw (also cast, shed) light on (also upon)1731 eclaircise1754 irradiate1864 unbraid1880 predigest1905 to get (something) straight1920 disambiguate1960 demystify1963 1862 J. Blackwood Let. 17 Mar. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) IV. 22 I suppose there is nothing in your remarks about language to clash with my paper last month. Keep me straight about this. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xiv. 167 Will,..I must get this straight. Some one said..all the doctors hate each other. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 124 Get this straight, we pure-and-simple jazzmen didn't scoff the ‘serious’ composers. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues xi. 194 When he got straight on my version of My Blue Heaven I played the second harmony sax part along with him. 1946 J. B. Priestley Bright Day x. 320 I'm going to risk telling you something... It's all ancient history, but..we might as well get it straight. < as lemmas |
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