keep true to the dreams of your youth. (Johann Schiller)

keep

English [ki? p] ? Beauty [ki? p] ?

v. (keep) in; Go on, repeat (doing sth); Delay; Delay

n. necessities of life; Living expenses; Castle main building

I managed to stick to the diet and keep off sweet foods?

I managed to eat only the prescribed diet, without sweets.

Extended information:

1. keep can be used as a transitive verb or an intransitive verb. When used as a transitive verb, a noun or pronoun can be taken as the object (the infinitive of the verb cannot be taken as the object), or a double object can be taken, and its indirect object can be transformed into the object of the preposition for. When keep is used as an intransitive verb to "save", the active structure often contains passive meaning.

2. keep can also be followed by adjectives, adverbs, as phrases, present participles (phrases), past participles (phrases) and other compound objects as object complements, but it cannot be followed by compound objects with infinitives.

3. keep can also be used as a copula followed by a predication, which can be used as an adjective, adverb, noun, gerund or prepositional phrase. This usage of keep can sometimes be used in the progressive aspect.

4. keep is followed by the preposition from, followed by a noun or gerund, which means "keep yourself from doing something", mainly used in negative sentences or interrogative sentences.

5. Most common idioms composed of keep are not used in the progressive aspect.