| 单词 | to keep touch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep touch (a) To keep a promise, to keep faith (with a person); to act faithfully. Also to keep one's touch. Cf. Phrases 1c. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > observe, adhere, or keep a promise [verb (intransitive)] to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290 beholda1400 to hold touch (also the touches)c1400 faithc1410 withholda1450 to keep touch1541 adherec1550 as good as one's word (also promise)c1560 inhere1563 watch1608 maximize1875 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > be faithful or trustworthy [verb (intransitive)] > to a promise to keep one's tongue1390 to hold touch (also the touches)c1400 to keep touch1541 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxxix. f. 95v By kepynge his promise and touch. ?c1562 Maner of World 90 Amonge them that are riche No frendshyp is to kepe tuche. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxxviii. 219 They kept not..true tutch wyth God, hys pact they oueryed. 1612 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 189 Hopinge thatt yow will remember mee when I am dedd I intende to keepe tuche with yow whiles I live. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 64 Quoth Hudibras, Thou offer'st much, But art not able to keep touch. 1666 Earl of Castlemaine Acct. Present War Venetians & Turk 60 The report of not being able to keep touch with their Militia, has done them such discredit, that scarce any now voluntarily come to their Service. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 47 To promise every body and keep touch with no body. 1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 68 When the week came round, did the glittering phantom..keep touch with me? (b) Originally: to maintain touch (sense 6e) in a military formation (now rare). Later more generally: to stay in close proximity; to maintain contact or communication with or (occasionally) †of (in early use frequently in military contexts). Cf. to lose touch at Phrases 1f.to keep in touch is now the more common phrase in the sense ‘to maintain contact or communication’: see Phrases 2a(c). ΚΠ 1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 251/2 The men keeping touch and step, and looking steadily on the faces of their foe. 1873 Daily News 15 Aug. 3/2 The valley..being so difficult General Russell's Brigade in its retirement could not easily keep touch of the enemy's 1st Brigade. 1893 Boys' Brigade Gaz. Apr. 217/1 The primary object of the Conference was to keep touch with other London Officers. 1912 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 12 Dec. 632/1 All of them [sc. schools] have kept touch of their boys, or have definitely looked up the record. 1920 H. W. Richmond Navy in War of 1739–48 II. i. 9 All that night the frigates kept touch with the enemy and signalled their positions continually by firing guns. 1930 E. Raymond Jesting Army vii. 103 They filed forward to their night fatigue,..over the plateau under view of the Turks; their silence broken only by an occasional voice: ‘Keep touch..Put that light out!..Break step.’ 1946 P. Abrahams Mine Boy ix. 107 Paddy went to a phone that had been strung along to keep touch with the surface. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) vii. 77 Its literate élite..sufficiently mobile to keep touch with their opposite numbers in neighbouring communities. < as lemmas |
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