单词 | to keep the peace |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep the peace a. to keep the peace (also to keep peace): to maintain public order; to prevent or refrain from public commotion or disorder; (gen.) to prevent or refrain from argument, strife, disruptive behaviour, or displays of hostile feeling, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > obey or be obedient [verb (intransitive)] > enforce orderly condition to make peacea1393 to keep the peacea1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 9689 (MED) Wher of serueþ any assise..But for to kepe pees [a1400 Vesp. to yeme þe pes] in londe? 1422 Rolls of Parl. IV. 176/1 Execution of lawe and kepyng of Pees stant miche in Justice of Pees. 1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 123/2 The Baillifs..shall well and truly kepe the pees within the seid Toun. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 7567 (MED) The þridde ben lordes þat þe pees kepe, For a man in pees may siker slepe. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 162 Caused him to be newely sworne to kepe the peace of the lande. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 45 Keepe peace vpon your liues, hee dies that strikes againe. View more context for this quotation 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 54 To keep the peace 'twixt Dog and Bear. 1735 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1195 I had resolved to keep the Peace on my own part, and affront none of them. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xiii. 411 To provide a determinate quantity of such arms as were then in use, in order to keep the peace. 1816 J. Austen Emma I. xi. 205 Emma..had half a mind to take it up; but she struggled, and let it pass. She would keep the peace if possible. View more context for this quotation 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 77 It's a little awkward; but a clergyman must keep peace in a family. 1951 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 13 Jan. 12 The licensee's job of keeping the peace was a hard one. 2003 Carmarthen Jrnl. (Nexis) 29 Oct. 5 Davies was bound over to keep the peace for six months to the sum of £100. < as lemmas |
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