keep at bay的意思|示意

I'm trying to keep my creditors at bay.

我在竭力避开债主。

You can actually do better (and feel better about your performance) if you keep the stress at bay and focus on simple study skills over the next few weeks.

如果你能控制好压力，在接下来的几周中把重点放在学习的技巧上，你就能在考试中发挥得更好，对自己的表现也会更有信心。

Monstrously inflated costs are designed to keep the hoi polloi at bay.

天价被设计用来让小老百姓们不敢问津。

Whether or not that claim was true, the institute secured a reputation as the place to dream up new ways to wage wars and keep enemies at bay.

不管那些话是真是假，那家研究院总算是守住了跟它那个提出作战与制敌新思路地位相符的名分。

Fortunately, other Greek soldiers dropped down beside him and helped keep the enemy at bay.

幸运的是，其他希腊士兵也与他一起掉了下去，帮助他们让敌人走投无路。

To keep the insects at bay, Mr. Prasart has lined his paths with barrel-size water-filled porcelain jars and vases — some more than 500 years old.

为了防虫，P先生在道路的两侧摆上油桶大小的陶瓷罐子和瓶子---当中一些有500多年的历史， 里面盛满了水。