keep in line

英 [kiːp ɪn laɪn]

美 [kiːp ɪn laɪn]

使（某人）就范; 使（某人）听从吩咐

英英释义

verb

• control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage
  1. She manipulates her boss
  2. She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up
  3. The teacher knew how to keep the class in line
  4. she keeps in line
  Synonym:manipulatecontrol

双语例句

• It will be low because it will be necessary to have only one man looking after each job, without having another man to check upon what he is doing, keep him in line, and report on him to someone else.
  行政管理费用的降低的原因是：每项工作只需要一个人去完成，用不着另外再有一个人检查工作。
• Moreover with China joining WTO, we should keep in line with the international occupational safety and health management.
  另外，随着WTO的加入，我国也应与国际职业安全健康管理的趋势接轨。
• Like sheep without any need for a sheepdog, we keep each other in line.
  我们彼此一致，就像无需牧羊犬看守的羊群。
• That you will do whatever it takes to keep your wife in line.
  您肯定也可以不惜任何代价处理好您的夫人。
• Nor can a bunch of "super-smart" investors necessarily keep prices in line;
  一些“超聪明”的投资者也不一定能使价格合理变化；
• Call it a loving memory of his family or a way to keep him in line.
  这可称得上是来自家庭的爱的记忆。
• How should the ideology of Jiangxi keep in line with that of zhejiang?
  论江西与浙江思想观念接轨？
• I can use it like a boomerang to keep him in line.
  到时候，我就可以像丢回力镖一样打他。
• Since the Department of Statistics is part of the government, and statistics is government behaviour, it is essential to keep statistics in line with the current international rules and the requirement of establishing service-oriented society.
  统计部门既然是政府的组成部门之一，统计行为是政府行为，因此，政府统计必须与通行的国际统计规范接轨，与建设服务型政府的要求相接轨。
• We will then need just enough growth in private and public spending to offset productivity growth and keep job growth in line with the supply of new workers.
  在这种情况下，私人和公共消费只要能抵消生产率增长，让就业和劳动力供应保持同步增长就可以了。