Cách phát âm
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/ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/
Động từ
To control or limit access to something.
Cách dùng- ngoại động từ
To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
Cách dùng- ngoại động từ
To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
Cách dùng- broadly
- ngoại động từ
Danh từ
A gatekeeper.
- Ví dụ
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Thêm ví dụ (1)
Similar remarks had passed the cherry-stained lips a hundred times, and this one was brought on just after the gatekeep at the north postern of Bull Joy had slyly given the wink behind "her husband's" broad back.
A gentleman stopped his horse at a toll-gate and not seeing the gatekeep went into the house.
Though there was a moment of anxiety, a generous bribe persuaded the gatekeep to overlook their expired passports and they rode into Calais.
Thêm ví dụ (1)
“At least those doxies don't fancy themselves the gatekeeps of God, like the priest.” Margit said.