Safe
[seɪf] or [sef]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) strongbox where valuables can be safely kept.
(noun.) a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests.
(adj.) (of an undertaking) secure from risk .
(adj.) free from danger or the risk of harm; 'a safe trip'; 'you will be safe here'; 'a safe place'; 'a safe bet' .
(adj.) having reached a base without being put out; 'the runner was called safe when the baseman dropped the ball' .
杰奎琳編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes.
(superl.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc.
(superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
(n.) A place for keeping things in safety.
(n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like.
(n.) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
(v. t.) To render safe; to make right.
校對:卢埃林
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Secure, unharmed, undamaged, unscathed, unhurt, sound, free from harm, out of harm's way.[2]. Protected, guarded, under lock and key, under cover.[3]. Trusty, trustworthy, reliable, to be depended on, to be relied on.
n. [1]. Place of safety, secure place.[2]. Coffer, money-chest, strong box.
手打:露西娅
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Secure, unendangered, secured, sure, protected, impregnable, trustworthy,certain
ANT:Insecure, imperilled, dangerous, Hazardous, exposed
艾伦錄入
解釋/意思:
adj. unharmed: free from danger or injury: secure: securing from danger or injury: no longer dangerous: clear: trusty: sound: certain.—n. a chest or closet for money &c. safe against fire thieves &c. generally of iron: a chest or cupboard for meats: (coll.) a safety-bicycle.—v.t. to safeguard.—v.t. Safe′-conduct′ (Spens.).—ns. Safe′-con′duct a writing passport or guard granted to a person to enable him to travel with safety; Safe′-depos′it a safe storage for valuables; Safe′guard he who or that which guards or renders safe: protection: a guard passport or warrant to protect a traveller: a rail-guard at railway switches: (zool.) a monitor lizard.—v.t. to protect.—n. Safe′-keep′ing preservation from injury or from escape.—adv. Safe′ly in a safe manner.—ns. Safe′ness; Safe′-pledge a surety for one's appearance at a day assigned; Safe′ty freedom from danger or loss: close custody: a safeguard: Safe′ty-arch (archit.) an arch built in the body of a wall to relieve the pressure as over a door or window; Safe′ty-belt a belt made of some buoyant material or capable of being inflated for helping a person to float; Safe′ty-bī′cycle a low-wheeled bicycle; Safe′ty-buoy a buoy for helping a person to float: a life-preserver; Safe′ty-cage (mining) a cage by which a fall would be prevented in case of the breakage of the rope by means of safety-catches; Safe′ty-chain a check-chain of a car-truck: a safety-link; Safe′ty-fuse a waterproof woven tube enclosing an inflammable substance which burns at a regular rate; Safe′ty-hoist a hoisting-gear so arranged as to prevent its load being thrown precipitately down in case of accident; Safe′ty-lamp a lamp surrounded by wire-gauze used for safety in mines on account of the inflammable gases; Safe′ty-lock a lock that cannot be picked by ordinary means: in firearms a lock with some device for preventing accidental discharge; Safe′ty-match a match which can be ignited only on a surface specially prepared for the purpose; Safe′ty-pā′per a paper so prepared as to resist alteration by chemical or mechanical means; Safe′ty-pin a pin in the form of a clasp with a guard covering its point; Safe′ty-plug a plug of soft metal in an opening in a steam-boiler so as to melt when the temperature rises to its fusing-point and allow of an escape of steam; Safe′ty-rein a rein for preventing a horse from running away; Safe′ty-stop a contrivance for preventing accidents in machinery; Safe′ty-tube a tube used in chemical operations to prevent the bursting of vessels by gas and for other purposes; Safe′ty-valve a valve in the top of a steam-boiler which lets out the steam when the pressure is too great for safety.
校對:拉弗尔斯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of seeing a safe, denotes security from discouraging affairs of business and love. To be trying to unlock a safe, you will be worried over the failure of your plans not reaching quick maturity. To find a safe empty, denotes trouble.
手打:列侬
例句/造句/用法:
- Is it safe now, dearest mother? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- With perfect coolness Holmes slipped across to the safe, filled his two arms with bundles of letters, and poured them all into the fire. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- There he is, all safe and sound. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I now ventured to turn my head back, believing myself at a safe distance from the stranger. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- To put it mildly, is it ever safe to ignore them entirely in our thinking? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Nothing had happened--they were both as safe and as well as when I had left them. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Left alone in the study, I opened the safe and withdrew the contents of the drawer in which he had told me I would find my instructions. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- He is no doubt born with an appetite--probably, when he is in a safer state of health, he has an excellent appetite. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- To provide a metal which should be at once stronger and safer than any which had been used before. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Fanny's interest seems in safer hands with you than with me. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- They would have been safer, though they had been taken in actual war against the Saracens, if they had once drank water with them. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- We have seen that they would have been safer among the ancient heathens, with whom the rites of hospitality were sacred. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The sooner we operate now the safer. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Their work is in the shops, devising improvements that will make the airship safer and better fitted for commercial uses. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Once the grotesqueness of the situation accepted, she had seen at a glance that it was the safest in which Dorset could find himself. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Or why had not she rather gone to her own room, as she had felt to be safest, instead of attending the rehearsal at all? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Tell me which was the safest course for men in their position? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Mr. Luker had answered that the best and safest person, in such cases, was usually a respectable solicitor. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You see, Judy thinks I'm the safest person for you to be with; and she's quite right, she rejoined. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I added, that of course, when the time came, I should go with him, or should follow close upon him, as might be safest in Wemmick's judgment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Their propriety, simplicity, and elegance, would make them the safest model for any young woman. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- We have seen, in treating of safes and locks, how burglars keep pace with the latest inventions to protect property by the use of dynamite and nitro-glycerine explosions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Chubb, in 1835, patented a process of rendering wooden safes burglar proof by lining them with steel, or case-hardened iron plate. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Bankers' safes had been forced before now, and why should not mine be? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Prior to the century safes were not constructed to withstand the test of intense heat. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The attention of the earliest inventors of the century were directed toward making safes fire-proof. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Hall and Marvin of the United States also invented safes for the same purpose. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
手打:雷切尔