| 单词 | to keep the deck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep the deck b. To stay or retain one's place in or on, against opposition; as to keep the deck, to keep the saddle, to keep the field, to keep the stage, to keep one's seat, to keep one's ground. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] > against opposition holda1132 keep1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. vi. 2 Yet all is not done, yet keepe the French the field. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 99 The tempest continuing (our Boate not being able to keepe the Seas) we were constrained to seeke into a Creeke. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. i. 298 Only sixteen men, and eleven boys were capable of keeping the deck. 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 555 Not a single tragedy of Beaumont and Fletcher's has been able to keep the stage. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. iv. 113 It [the story] kept its ground in spite of the interest..in distorting or suppressing it. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 579 The wonder is..that they were able to keep their seats. 1890 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 148 435/2 A first-class boat, capable of keeping the sea all the year round. < as lemmas |
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