Safety
['seɪftɪ] or ['sefti]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
卡特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Security.
手打:普里西拉
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 世紀發明.
- And from the safety of his overhanging limb the ape-child sent back the fearsome answer of his kind. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 世紀發明.
- We compromise her safety, perhaps, by staying here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- 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.
- She determined to call upon them and seek safety in numbers. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Thus they obtained air and proper ventilation without fear of lessening the safety of their cabin. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Why not secrete her there until I could return and fetch her away in safety and for ever from this awful place. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For safety's sake, all oily cloths should be burned or kept in metal vessels. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- They wanted not safety, but triumph, not world welfare, but world empire. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 威爾基·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. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
手打:托马斯