| 单词 | preserve |
| 释义 | preserve (once / 72 pages) vn When you preserve something, you maintain its condition, like trying to preserve your good health by exercising regularly and eating right. The verb preserve describes keeping something as it is now, without a decline in quality. It can also refer to keeping something safe from harm, as in “The group worked hard to preserve the regional ecosystem.” When you preserve food, such as fruit, you keep it from rotting. Jellies and jams are preserves, the noun form. A preserve can also be lands set aside, or preserved, as animal habitats. WORD FAMILYpreserve: preservable, preservation, preservative, preserved, preserver, preserves, preserving+/preservation: preservationist, preservations, self-preservation/preservationist: preservationists/preservative: preservatives/preserver: preservers USAGE EXAMPLES“We urge you to preserve this critical U.S. strategic asset,” the letter read. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Federal officials said last week that the Valles Caldera National Preserve would become the 17th U.S. park unit with designated thermal features if approved. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Preserving the flexibility to pick and choose facts carries obvious strategic benefits. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1v keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction We preserve these archeological findings Syn|Hypo|Hyper conserve, keep up, maintain embalm preserve a dead body plastinatepreserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes hold the linehold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant mummifyremove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it keep look after; be the keeper of; have charge of 2v maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger Syn|Hyper keep keep look after; be the keeper of; have charge of protect shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage 3v keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last preserve the peace in the family Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper bear on, carry on, continue, uphold continue, go forward, proceed move ahead; travel onward in time or space continue, go along, go on, keep, proceedcontinue a certain state, condition, or activity cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop put an end to a state or an activity re-start, restart, resume take up or begin anew hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere, persistbe persistent, refuse to stop perpetuatecause to continue or prevail keep up, prolong, sustainlengthen or extend in duration or space mummifypreserve while making lifeless obstinatepersist stubbornly ask for it, ask for troublepersist with actions or an attitude despite the probability that it will cause trouble plug, plug awaypersist in working hard follow, stick to, stick withkeep to continue, keep, keep on, retainallow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature eternizecause to continue indefinitely hold, keep, maintain keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean" 4v prevent (food) from rotting preserved meats Syn|Hypo|Hyper keep keep, stay fresh fail to spoil or rot freeze-dry preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum conservepreserve with sugar dehydrate, desiccatepreserve by removing all water and liquids from picklepreserve in a pickling liquid saltpreserve with salt can, put up, tinpreserve in a can or tin refrigeratepreserve by chilling cureprepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve cornpreserve with salt lyophilise, lyophilizeto dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum duncure by salting cook, fix, make, prepare, ready prepare for eating by applying heat 5v to keep up and reserve for personal or special use Syn|Hypo|Hyper save enter, put down, record make a record of; set down in permanent form conserve, economise, economize, husbanduse cautiously and frugally chalk up, tallykeep score, as in games clock in, clock on, punch inregister one's arrival at work record, taperegister electronically accessionmake a record of additions to a collection, such as a library postdisplay, as of records in sports games ring upto perform and record a sale on a cash register manifestrecord in a ship's manifest inscribewrite, engrave, or print as a lasting record chroniclerecord in chronological order; make a historical record file, file awayplace in a container for keeping records documentrecord in detail logenter into a log, as on ships and planes clock up, log uprecord a distance travelled; on planes and cars film, shoot, takemake a film or photograph of something tape, videotaperecord on videotape photograph, shoot, snaprecord on photographic film mark, scoremake underscoring marks notchnotch a surface to record something keep, maintainmaintain by writing regular records filmrecord in film retrenchtighten one's belt; use resources carefully registerrecord in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions bookrecord a charge in a police register hold on, keep retain possession of 6v keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing preserve the forest and the lakes Hyper hold, keep, maintain keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean" 7n fruit preserved by cooking with sugar Syn|Hypo|Hyper conserve, conserves, preserves apple butter thick dark spicy puree of apples chowchowa Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger jampreserve of crushed fruit lemon cheese, lemon curda conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar jellya preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit marmaladea preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits strawberry jam, strawberry preservesmade with strawberries apple jellyjelly made from apple juice grape jellyjelly made from grape juice orange marmalademarmalade made from oranges confiture preserved or candied fruit 8n a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone medicine is no longer a male preserve Hyper area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere a particular environment or walk of life 9n a reservation where animals are protected Hypo|Hyper shooting preserve a preserve on which hunting is permitted during certain months of the year reservation, reserve a district that is reserved for particular purpose |
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