Safety
['seɪftɪ] or ['sefti]
解释:
(noun.) a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line.
(noun.) a safe place; 'He ran to safety'.
(noun.) the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions; 'insure the safety of the children'; 'the reciprocal of safety is risk'.
卡特编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
(n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.
(n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.
(n.) Same as Safety touchdown, below.
整理:奥利维亚
同义词及近义词：
n. Security.
手打:普里西拉
例句:
- Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- And from the safety of his overhanging limb the ape-child sent back the fearsome answer of his kind. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Then came improved weighted and other safety valves to regulate and control this pressure. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- We compromise her safety, perhaps, by staying here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- If after that you are taken, you will then be a prize; but now you are only a stranger, and have a stranger's right to safety and protection. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- She determined to call upon them and seek safety in numbers. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Thus they obtained air and proper ventilation without fear of lessening the safety of their cabin. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She put a white gown on me and pinned it at the neck in back with a safety pin. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Why not secrete her there until I could return and fetch her away in safety and for ever from this awful place. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The contraction of the frog's legs may with considerable safety be said to be caused by these mechanical vibrations being transmitted through the conducting wires. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- For safety's sake, all oily cloths should be burned or kept in metal vessels. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- They wanted not safety, but triumph, not world welfare, but world empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- If I am to fight our cause with the Count, strong in the consciousness of Laura's safety, I must fight it for my Wife. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Not that we would have endangered his safety by any tremendous weather--but only by a steady contrary wind, or a calm. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
手打:托马斯