keep one's counsel

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To keep one's own business private; to be careful, circumspect, or discreet in what one says concerning one's own deeds, situation, or thoughts.
    — As he held his mother to him, he longed to tell her all, but he kept his counsel.
  2. To keep a secret for someone else; to be careful, circumspect, or discreet in what one says concerning someone else's deeds, situation, or thoughts.
    — Standish will keep our counsel, and the news will be old before it's known.

词形变化

keeps one's counsel present,singular,third-person keeping one's counsel participle,present kept one's counsel participle,past kept one's counsel past
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