keep up

柯林斯詞典

keep up (keeping,kept,keeps)

• 1. PHRASAL VERB If you keep up with someone or something that is moving near you, you move at the same speed. 跟上

  He lengthened his stride to keep up with his father. 他邁開大步跟上他父親。

• 2. PHRASAL VERB To keep up with something that is changing means to be able to cope with the change, usually by changing at the same rate. 跟上 (變化)

  The union called the strike to press for wage increases which keep up with inflation. 工會號召罷工，要求工資增長跟上通貨膨脹。

• 3. PHRASAL VERB If you keep up with your work or with other people, you manage to do or understand all your work, or to do or understand it as well as other people. 跟上 (工作進(jìn)度等)

  Penny tended to work through her lunch hour in an effort to keep up with her work. 爲(wèi)了努力跟上工作進(jìn)度，彭妮往往午飯時間也在工作。

• 4. PHRASAL VERB If you keep up with what is happening, you make sure that you know about it. 了解

  She did not bother to keep up with the news. 她不願操心去了解新聞。

• 5. PHRASAL VERB If you keep something up, you continue to do it or provide it. 使繼續(xù)下去

  I was so hungry all the time that I could not keep the diet up for longer than a month. 我縂是餓，所以我的節(jié)食一個月後就繼續(xù)不下去了。

• 6. PHRASAL VERB If you keep something up, you prevent it from growing less in amount, level, or degree. 使不下降

  The riders had to keep their pace up. 騎手們必須保持速度不減。

• 7. →see also keep

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