on keel

介词短语

英文释义

介词短语
  1. Moving straight ahead without wobbling or tilting. (of a watercraft, etc.)
    — It does take some experience with balance and acceleration to keep a snowmobile on keel in the deep woods.
  2. Under control, proceeding or running smoothly. figuratively
    — He walked-ran day after day although it was a living bore, the sameness, the ritual. This extraordinary world—is this how life wants me to live it? But he ran to keep himself on keel, to wind himself into work the next morning.

词汇关系

反义词
off keel

词源

From on + keel.
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