| 词组 | keep up |
| 释义 | keep up 1. keep up sth • keep sth up to continue doing something: ▪ The doctor advised me to keep up the treatment for two weeks. ▪ All the way home the kids kept up a non-stop flow of questions. ▪ Any exercise is good for you, but ideally you should keep it up regularly. keep up the good work (=continue to work hard and well) ▪ Our manager's always coming round telling each of us to keep up the good work. keep it up (=continue to work hard and well) ▪ He had been revising for nearly five weeks and felt he couldn't keep it up for much longer. 2. keep up if something keeps up, it continues without stopping or changing: ▪ It had been raining for days, and everyone was wondering how long it could keep up. ▪ If things keep up like this, we'll all be millionaires soon. ■ SIMILAR TO: continue 3. keep up to go as quickly as someone else: ▪ Maggie had a stone in her shoe, and was finding it hard to keep up. + with ▪ Sometimes Emmie followed Nick. She had to walk fast to keep up with him. 4. keep up to manage to do as much or as well as other people: ▪ Teachers should offer advice to children in hospital on how to keep up at school. + with ▪ Older employees often find it difficult to keep up with their younger colleagues. ▪ "He had enormous energy," Deborah said. "I felt I could never keep up with him." keep up with the Joneses (=try to have the same possessions and way of life as other people, so that they will think you are as good, rich etc as them) ▪ Until she was forty, Gemma's life consisted of microwaves and mobile phones and keeping up with the Joneses. ■ OPPOSITE: fall behind 5. keep up to keep changing the way in which you do something because the situation you are in keeps changing + with ▪ In the car industry, many of the smaller firms have been unable to keep up with the pace of change. keep up with demand (=supply as much of something as is wanted, especially when the amount is increasing quickly) ▪ It's difficult to produce these computer games fast enough to keep up with demand. keep up ▪ Young people's fashions change so quickly nowadays that you need a lot of money to keep up. 6. keep up to know about and understand all the most recent facts in a situation: + with ▪ We encourage all our employees to keep up with new technical developments. keep up ▪ Technology changes all the time. It's almost impossible to keep up. 7. keep up sth • keep sth up to make something continue at its present level or amount, instead of letting it decrease: ▪ Nato kept up the pressure on the Serbs to get out of Kosovo. ▪ You need to have a good meal now to keep your strength up. 8. keep up if one process keeps up with another, it increases at the same speed so that they stay at the same level + with ▪ In most African countries, food production is not keeping up with population growth. ▪ Salaries have not kept up with inflation in the last few years. 9. keep up sth • keep sth up to continue to practise a skill or subject that you learned in the past so that you do not forget it: ▪ I was keen to keep up the French that I had learned when I worked at the resort. ▪ George used to play the piano, but I'm afraid he hasn't kept it up. 10. keep sth up • keep up sth to look after a building and pay for any work that needs to be done, so that it stays in good condition: ▪ In the end the family had to sell the house. They didn't have enough money to keep it up. ■ SIMILAR TO: maintain formal upkeep n singular the process and cost of looking after a building: ▪ On a house this size, the upkeep is enormous. 11. keep sb up • keep up sb to prevent someone from going to bed at the usual time: ▪ One of the students kept Mike up for hours talking about her problems. ▪ The noise from the party kept us all up. |
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