| 单词 | to keep way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep way (c) to keep way: to maintain the same pace or rate of progress; to keep up with; = to keep (also †hold) pace at pace n.1 Phrases 1a. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings f. 1 We could not behold such sport thus farre of, but rather so farre as might become vs, keep way with the formost. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Gg1 It seemeth best, to keepe way with Antiquitie vsque ad aras . View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xl. 236 When there be not Stonds, nor Restiuenesse in a Mans Nature; But that the wheeles of his Minde keepe way, with the wheeles of his Fortune. 1640 J. Yorke Battels in Union of Honour 63 She..had her fore mast broken off, which so hindred her sayle, that shee was unable to keepe way with the Fleete. 1708 Constitutions Company Watermen & Lightermen 82 All plying to keep Way, on forfeiture of 00. 00. 06. 1818 in J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire Introd. p. xxvii In running..from the Nore to the North Foreland,..she kept way with the transport. < as lemmas |
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