keep in

• 动词短语，表示使某物留在内部、不让其出去，或使某人保持在某个地方或某种状态。

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of preventing something from leaving, or maintaining something within a certain place or condition.

不可数 · 不规则动词 · 及物 · 短语动词，可分

1. Restrain or confineformal

   To prevent someone or something from leaving a place.

   留住

   • The teacher kept the students in after class for misbehaving.
   • We kept the dog in the house during the storm.
   • The police kept the suspect in custody overnight.

   同义词cageconfinecoop updetainholdimprisonlock uprestrainshut in

   反义词freeliberaterelease

2. Maintain a relationship or contactinformal

   To continue to communicate or stay in touch with someone.

   保持联系

   • We should keep in touch after you move away.
   • She keeps in contact with her old college friends.
   • He tries to keep in with his neighbors by being friendly.

3. Suppress or controlinformal

   To hold back an emotion or reaction.

   抑制

   • He kept in his anger during the argument.
   • She could barely keep in her laughter at the joke.
   • Try to keep in your excitement until the surprise is revealed.

   同义词bottle upcheckcontaincurbhold backinhibitrepressrestrainstiflesuppress

   反义词dischargeexpressoutletreleasevent

基本动词keep