keep on

1. → see: keep 7
2. PHRASAL VERB 继续雇用
   If you keep someone on, you continue to employ them, for example after they are old enough to retire or after other employees have lost their jobs.
   1. Sometimes they keep you on a bit longer if there's no one quite ready to step into your shoes...
      有时如果没有顶替你的合适人选，他们会继续雇用你一段时间。
   2. A skeleton staff of 20 is being kept on.
      留下了20名骨干人员。

1. Absent a solution, people like Sue Godfrey will just keep on fighting.
   假如得不到解决，像休·戈弗雷这样的人就会一直坚持斗争下去。
2. Never keep on exercising if you have even the slightest chest pain
   即使你只感到很轻微的胸部疼痛，也不要继续锻炼。
3. Ray will earn his keep on local farms while studying
   雷求学期间会在当地的农场干活赚取生活费。
4. Sometimes they keep you on a bit longer if there's no one quite ready to step into your shoes
   有时如果没有顶替你的合适人选，他们会继续雇用你一段时间。
5. A skeleton staff of 20 is being kept on.
   留下了20名骨干人员。
6. You've constantly got to keep on at people about that
   你总是得没完没了地和别人说那件事。
7. He used to keep on at me about the need to win
   他以前总是跟我唠叨必须获胜才行。
8. The practice is to keep on record any analysis of samples.
   习惯上要把所有的样品分析记录在案。
9. The ceasefire itself could prove stillborn if rebel units in the bush keep on fighting.
   如果丛林地带的叛军继续开火，那停火协议本身就可能起不到任何作用。
10. You keep on amazing me, year after year, the same old ways.
    你不断地给我同样的惊喜，年年如此。
11. If you keep on collection, in time you'll have a wealth of data.
    只要你注意搜集，久而久之，资料就丰富了。
12. He didn't come at all. It was silly of us to keep on waiting for him.
    他根本没有来，我们傻等了他半天。
13. It's time you went. Why do you keep on chattering away?
    你不快走，还罗嗦个啥？
14. Keep on learning as long as you live.
    活到老，学到老。
15. To know it's no use, but keep on doing it--there can be no greater folly than this.
    知其不可而为之，愚不可及也。
16. Don't keep on bothering me.
    别老磨人！
17. If he doesn't agree, just keep on at him until he does.
    他不答应，你就跟他磨。
18. This medicine will be effective if you keep on taking it for a time.
    这种药连着吃下去一定会有成效。
19. Keep on fighting till victory is assured.
    继续战斗，直至胜利。
20. I'm so sorry to keep on bothering you.
    老是累赘你们，真过意不去。
21. If we keep on our way for another hour we should reach the village.
    如果再继续向前走一小时，我们就到那个村子了。
22. Keep on reading the text until you've learned it by heart.
    继续读课文，记住了才算数。
23. Even though your research appears to be at a dead end now, you shouldn't lose heart but keep on trying.
    即使你们的研究现在似乎没有什么进展，你们还是不应该泄气，而要继续进行下去。
24. Will you keep on the course of exercises until you are thinner?
    你要继续这项训练，直到身体瘦下来为止吗？
25. I won't keep on waiting more than half a minute.
    我不会让你久等的。
26. I had to keep on with the deception.
    我必须继续蒙混下去。
27. When on earth will we finish if we keep on dawdling like this?
    这么拖下去，驴年马月才能干完？
28. How do you keep on a horse?
    你如何骑在马上？
29. We are going to keep on with our vital work on welfare and immigration too.
    我们也会继续福利和移民方面的重要工作。
30. We'll just keep on taxing the corporations and the rich.
    只要继续对公司和有钱人征税就行了。

verb

1. allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
   1. We cannot continue several servants any longer
   2. She retains a lawyer
   3. The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff
   4. Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on
   5. We kept the work going as long as we could
   6. She retained her composure
   7. this garment retains its shape even after many washings

   Synonym:    retaincontinuekeep