keel

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keel1 /kiːl/ noun

1 on an even keel CHANGE/BECOME DIFFERENTsteady, without any sudden changes 平稳的，稳定的

keep something/get something back on an even keel

Now that the crisis is over, we must try to get things back on an even keel.

既然危机已过去，我们必须设法使一切都恢复稳定。

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on an even keel• Then maybe they are on an even keel.• I was supposed to be a caretaker, charged with setting the branch back on an even keel.• In Chapter 11, companies' management usually remains in place while the company tries to get back on an even keel.• Confusion seems to reign in many areas of your life at present, so try to get on an even keel.• These two kept her on an even keel.• So when we got up here, I was really enjoying sort of keeping things on an even keel at home.• That Nigel was on an even keel again was a double comfort.

2. TTW[countableC] a bar along the bottom of a boat that keeps it steady in the water 〔船的〕龙骨

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keel• But then he wasn't carrying tons of lead on a keel that had to be dragged through the water.• I was supposed to be a caretaker, charged with setting the branch back on an even keel.• These two kept her on an even keel.• So when we got up here, I was really enjoying sort of keeping things on an even keel at home.• Had the peak risen up from the waters and punctured the keel, thereby skewering the vessel in place?• These bronze fastenings protrude through the keel and would have secured the main station frames of the hull.• At the same time, the keel can be reinforced with extra pieces of spare fabric, and eyelets riveted in place.

keel2 verb

1 keel over phrasal verbphr v FALLto fall over sideways 翻倒，倾覆

Several soldiers keeled over in the hot sun.

几名士兵在烈日下晕倒了。

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keel over• She'd been complaining of a headache all morning, and suddenly she just keeled over.• Carson keeled over and died in front of the nightclub after taking a number of illegal drugs.

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keel• The worker on the ladder looks as if he is ready to keel over from exhaustion.• It would allow him to go quietly in his sleep or keel over happily on the fourth green.• Truly I would keel over in spasms of exquisite nostalgia.• Frighten or surprise one and it will stiffen and keel over in what appears to be a dead faint.• His momentum carried him as far as the launcher and with out-thrust foot he sent it keeling over on to its side.• She hated him, hated him, her respect and breathless excitement keeling over under the weight of her rage and humiliation.• Once Muzzy Izzet had rounded off a neatly worked equaliser the Second Division side might have been expected to keel over.

From Longman Business Dictionary

keelkeel /kiːl/ noun

on an even keel working smoothly without any sudden changes

a strategy to put the economy on an even keel

Origin keel1

(1300-1400) Old Norse kjölr

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