Protection
[prə'tekʃ(ə)n] or [prə'tɛkʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence; 'every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection'.
(noun.) the activity of protecting someone or something; 'the witnesses demanded police protection'.
(noun.) the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition; 'he made trade protection a plank in the party platform'.
(noun.) the condition of being protected; 'they were huddled together for protection'; 'he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home'.
简錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.
(n.) That which protects or preserves from injury; a defense; a shield; a refuge.
(n.) A writing that protects or secures from molestation or arrest; a pass; a safe-conduct; a passport.
(n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade.
谢丽尔手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Shelter, defence, security, safety, refuge, guard, preservation.[2]. Shield, ægis, buckler, palladium.
巴塞洛缪校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Shelter, defence, security, safety, refuge, guard,[See SECURITY]
手打:西尔维亚
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Originally, the swaddling clothes of the infant, Industry; now, merely the shoe-lacings for the giant, Monopoly.
校對:赛克
例句/造句/用法:
- What a wrong, to cut off the girl from the family protection and inheritance only because she had chosen a man who was poor! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In short, but for such perseverance as I have seldom witnessed, I had never placed myself under his protection. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- 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. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- So shall you give me protection without sacrifice on your part, or the pretext of requiring any requital from me. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Others, less injured and still in fighting trim, were making for the beaches close beneath him that would bring them under the protection of his army. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If one wishes the pits may be left uncovered, in which case something like a foot of the ensilage will decay and form a covering and protection for that beneath. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- When these were not near enough to the troops for protection they were taken down and moved up to the line of the road. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Sedgwick had refused his right and intrenched it for protection against attack. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- No assurance to convey to him, through me, of the continuance of your affection and protection? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- At length the sun rose so high that it struck a kindly ray as of hope or protection, directly down upon the old prisoner's head. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- And this is right in one sense, as the laws of all countries in respect to protection by patents for inventions are based upon the primary condition of benefit to society. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Arkwright built a mill there in 1780, and it prospered exceedingly, in spite of the fact that he no longer had the protection of his patents. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The most important part of the expense of government, indeed, that of defence and protection, has constantly fallen upon the mother country. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Children, I leave you to Hannah's care and Mr. Laurence's protection. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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