Preserve
[prɪ'zɜːv] or [prɪ'zɝv]
解释:
(noun.) a reservation where animals are protected.
(noun.) a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; 'medicine is no longer a male preserve'.
(verb.) prevent (food) from rotting; 'preserved meats'; 'keep potatoes fresh'.
(verb.) keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing; 'preserve the forest and the lakes'.
录入:提托--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
(v. t.) To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.
(v. t.) To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence.
(v. i.) To make preserves.
(v. i.) To protect game for purposes of sport.
(n.) That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.
(n.) A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.
杰罗姆录入
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Keep, guard, protect, defend, secure, shield, uphold, sustain, maintain, spare, save, watch over.[2]. Conserve, keep sound, save from decay.
n. [1]. Sweetmeat, confection, comfit, conserve, JAM.[2]. Enclosure (for game).
编辑:韦德
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Defend, guard, save, keep_safe, uphold, protect, maintain, rescue, spare,[SeePROTECT]
校对:威拉德
解释:
v.t. to keep safe from harm or injury: to defend: to keep in a sound state: to season for preservation: to make lasting: to keep up as appearances.—n. that which is preserved as fruit &c.: that which preserves: a place for the protection of animals as game: (pl.) spectacles to protect the eyes from strong light &c.—n. Prēservabil′ity.—adj. Prēser′vable.—n. Prēservā′tion act of preserving or keeping safe: state of being preserved: safety.—adjs. Prēser′vative Prēser′vatory tending to preserve: having the quality of preserving.—n. that which preserves: a preventive of injury or decay.—n. Prēserv′er.
校对:潘西
例句:
- In all the incidents of life we ought still to preserve our scepticism. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- These experiments and these testimonies prove conclusively that this compound will preserve cream. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Preserve a certain order; do not attempt to jump from the ground to the gable, but rise gradually from what is simple and easily understood. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- To obey the civil magistrate is requisite to preserve order and concord in society. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Perhaps, however, if it were buried in quicksilver, it might preserve, for a considerable space of time, its vegetable life, its smell, and colour. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Thus they were willing to commit a sin against the spirit of religious law, in order that they might preserve the letter of it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- No organism wholly soft can be preserved. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The line between the two colours preserved no sort of regularity. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- She still preserved her proud manner, but there was a touch of softness in her voice, as she answered: 'I justify nothing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Then, do you see any way in which the philosopher can be preserved in his calling to the end? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- This was a wonderful discovery, and was preserved as a trade secret for a long time. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- There were many mute Marco Polos who never met their Rusticianos, and history has not preserved their names. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- We use the crab-apple for preserving even now, although man’s ingenuity has succeeded in inducing nature to give us many better tasting kinds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- These are some of the same lot; they were made as follows: The meat was chopped, put into the preserving fluid for one night, and then mixed with the other material in the ordinary way. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- From the outset, an innate recognition of system dictated the desirability and wisdom of preserving records of his experiments and inventions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Now, if this flesh were cut up in small pieces, and put into the preserving liquid for a night, it would, even in that hot climate, keep good for some time. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Preserve her--for her own sake I know that you will--if you require any other spur, think that, in preserving her, you preserve me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- With regard to preserving morbid specimens he thought it would answer perfectly well. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- A powerful business corporation still preserves its industrial tradition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- You need not be afraid of unwholesome preserves here. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- By this indulgence of the fancy in its inconstancy, the tie of child and parent still preserves its full force and influence. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It soon became known that Adrian took great delight in his park and preserves. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- He sent over preserves and pickles, which latter the young gentleman tried surreptitiously in the sideboard and half-killed himself with eating. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- We all know that leather is the skins of animals, dressed and prepared for our use by tanning, or some other process, which preserves them from rotting and renders them pliable and tough. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
手打:玛吉