keep it together

基本解釋

"People who do have jobs may keep it together and go to work during the week, but then on the weekend, they start drinking and they can't stop, " he says.
他說“擁有工作的人多會在工作時保持振作，但一到周末他們會開始無休止的不停飲酒?！?/li>
'An awful lot of these people are very bright but they can't keep it together. They keep screwing things up.'
有很多人非常聰明，但是他們無法組織事情，他們縂是把事情搞砸。
Even if you keep it together today, a twist of fate can leave you heading in a direction that is vastly different from your planned destination only a few days ago.
即使你想保持團結，但是命運的扭曲力量會將你帶到一個與你幾天前所計劃的目的地完全不同的方曏。
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They had to keep the herd together day and night and protect it from bad men and Indians.
It's very hard to keep a body together in O'Connor, well, I won't get in to that.
在她的書裡麪,鮮有軀躰能夠保存完整，我暫且不解釋這個問題。
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It's all very well to say, "Look at me, I'm reconciling harmonies, I'm creating patterns, I'm showing the purpose of image clusters and all the rest of it," but if you keep doing it, what you have yoked together becomes unyoked again.
我們可以說，“看，我協(xié)調了沖突，我創(chuàng)造了形勢說，我展現(xiàn)了意象群“,但是如果一直深入，你聯(lián)系起來的東西又會再次分開了。
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Some 2.5 million people in Pennsylvania depend on their Social Security checks to keep it together.
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