keep it together

基本解释

"People who do have jobs may keep it together and go to work during the week, but then on the weekend, they start drinking and they can't stop, " he says.
他说“拥有工作的人多会在工作时保持振作，但一到周末他们会开始无休止的不停饮酒。”
'An awful lot of these people are very bright but they can't keep it together. They keep screwing things up.'
有很多人非常聪明，但是他们无法组织事情，他们总是把事情搞砸。
Even if you keep it together today, a twist of fate can leave you heading in a direction that is vastly different from your planned destination only a few days ago.
即使你想保持团结，但是命运的扭曲力量会将你带到一个与你几天前所计划的目的地完全不同的方向。
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They had to keep the herd together day and night and protect it from bad men and Indians.
It's very hard to keep a body together in O'Connor, well, I won't get in to that.
在她的书里面,鲜有躯体能够保存完整，我暂且不解释这个问题。
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It's all very well to say, "Look at me, I'm reconciling harmonies, I'm creating patterns, I'm showing the purpose of image clusters and all the rest of it," but if you keep doing it, what you have yoked together becomes unyoked again.
我们可以说，“看，我协调了冲突，我创造了形势说，我展现了意象群“,但是如果一直深入，你联系起来的东西又会再次分开了。
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Some 2.5 million people in Pennsylvania depend on their Social Security checks to keep it together.
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