keep down

1. PHRASAL VERB 使（数目、大小、数量等）保持在低水平；抑制…增长
   If you keep the number, size, or amount of something down, you do not let it get bigger or go higher.
   1. The prime aim is to keep inflation down...
      首要目标是抑制通货膨胀。
   2. Administration costs were kept down to just £460.
      管理费用被控制在区区460英镑。
2. PHRASAL VERB 压制；压服；镇压
   If someone keeps a group of people down, they prevent them from getting power and status and being completely free.
   1. No matter what a woman tries to do to improve her situation, there is some barrier or attitude to keep her down.
      女性无论如何努力去改善自己的处境，总会受到一些障碍或看法的压制。
3. PHRASAL VERB 不使（食物或饮料）吐出
   If you keep food or drink down, you manage to swallow it properly and not vomit, even though you feel sick.
   1. I tried to give her something to drink but she couldn't keep it down.
      我想给她喝点东西，但她根本喝不下去。

1. The prime aim is to keep inflation down
   首要目标是抑制通货膨胀。
2. Administration costs were kept down to just £ 460.
   管理费用被控制在区区460英镑。
3. No matter what a woman tries to do to improve her situation, there is some barrier or attitude to keep her down.
   女性无论如何努力去改善自己的处境，总会受到一些障碍或看法的压制。
4. I tried to give her something to drink but she couldn't keep it down.
   我想给她喝点东西，但她根本喝不下去。
5. We must keep down the number of useless mouths.
   我们必须减少吃闲饭的人。
6. They have found out a new way to keep down weeds in paddy fields.
   他们找到了一种控制稻田杂草的新方法。
7. It also helps to keep down issues with crowds getting too big, too early.
   这种策略还有助于遏制由于用户数过早过快膨胀带来的问题。
8. Will you increase profits, help keep down costs, or get or retain clients?
   你能够增加收益、减低成本，留住客户吗？
9. We hoe the garden to keep down the weeds.
   我们给花园锄草以限制杂草生长。
10. As to the thing that the copyright included in the content and other ownership declaration, you should respect and keep down its copy.
    对于内容中所含的版权和其他所有权声明，您应予以尊重并在其副本中予以保留。
11. You should try to keep down your anger.
    你应该尽量克制自己的脾气。
12. I'd like to eat if I could find something I could keep down.
    我想如果我能找到一些吃的我可以留下来。
13. The company tries to keep down the cost.
    这个公司试图控制成本。
14. We should take measures to keep down nonproductive expenses.
    我们应采取措施削减非生产性开支。
15. Keep down or you'll be hit by shell fragments.
    别起来，否则你会被弹片击中的。
16. The white racists tried to keep down the Indians by force.
    白人种族主义者企图用武力压服印第安人。
17. The only way to keep down prices was to hold down wages.
    抑制物价的唯一办法是限制提薪。
18. Energy conservation can keep down the oil prices.
    能源储备能够使油价下降。
19. Decere Lai Jawili struggles to keep down her drugs from the International Center for Tuberculosis in Manila.
    在马尼拉的结核病国际中心，DecereLaiJawili使劲地把药物咽下。
20. There's somebody coming! Keep down and don't make a sound.
    有人来了！卧倒，不要做声。
21. She seems weak and she cannot keep down anything she has a stomachache and a sight fever.
    她好像很虚弱，而且吃了就吐。她胃痛而且有点发烧。
22. Measures were taken to keep down non-productive expenses.
    为紧缩非生产性开支人们采取了措施。
23. He couldn't keep down his anger.
    他按捺不住自己的怒火。
24. They are taking steps to keep down the rabbit population.
    他们采取步骤控制兔子的繁殖增长。
25. When we reach the footbridge over the canal, keep down or you'll bang your head on it!
    船行到运河上的人行桥时，要蹲下身子，不然会碰头的。
26. It is convenient for hardware asset management and statistic, and can lookup clew and keep down proof for illegal action.
    方便硬件资产管理和统计；对非法的行为能够查找线索、保留证据；
27. But do you deny claims on purpose to keep down how much we claim?
    但你会故意拒绝赔付以压低我们索赔的金额吗？
28. I keep down my expenses this year.
    我紧缩今年的开支。
29. You can keep down consumption of goods.
    你可以减少物品的消耗量。
30. Keep down of you'll bang your head on the bridge!
    你的身子不要挺起来，否则你的头就会猛碰到桥上了！

verb

1. manage not to throw up

2. place a limit on the number of

   Synonym:    number

3. put down by force or intimidation
   1. The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
   2. China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
   3. The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land

   Synonym:    repressquashsubduesubjugatereduce