preserve

英 [prɪ'zɜːv] 美 [prɪ'zɝv]

解释

※ 提供单词"preserve"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

preserve 保护，维护，保存

pre-,在前，早于，预先，-serv,保护，看护，词源同conserve,observe.

preserve: preserve: [14] The -serve of preserve comes from Latin servāre ‘keep safe’ (no relation to servīre ‘serve’, but source also of English conserve, observe, and reserve). Combination with prae- ‘before’ produced medieval Latin praeservāre ‘guard beforehand, take steps to ward off possible harm’, which reached English via Old French preserver.
=> conserve, observe, reserve
preserve (v.): late 14c., "keep safe," from Anglo-French preservare, Old French preserver, from Medieval Latin preservare "keep, preserve," from Late Latin praeservare "guard beforehand," from Latin prae "before" (see pre-) + servare "to keep safe" (see observe). As a treatment of fruit, etc., 1570s; of organic bodies from 1610s. Related: Preserved; preserving.
preserve (n.): "fruit preserved with sugar," c. 1600, from preserve (v.). Earlier it meant "a preservative" (1550s). Sense of "protected place for animals or plants" (a sense more properly belonging to conserve) is from 1807.

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1. After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.: 诺曼征服之后，这片森林成为了皇家狩猎区。

2. The park was created to preserve some of the forests upstate.: 这个公园是为了保护该州最北部地区的一些森林而建的。

4. The conduct of foreign policy is largely the preserve of the president.: 外交政策事宜主要由总统专门负责。

5. Their main job is to preserve health rather than treat illness.: 它们的主要功效是保健而非治病。