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单词 safeguard
释义
safeguard1 verbsafeguard2 noun
safeguardsafe‧guard1 /ˈseɪfɡɑːd $ -ɡɑːrd/ ●○○ verb [transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
safeguard
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theysafeguard
he, she, itsafeguards
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theysafeguarded
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave safeguarded
he, she, ithas safeguarded
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad safeguarded
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill safeguard
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have safeguarded
Continuous Form
PresentIam safeguarding
he, she, itis safeguarding
you, we, theyare safeguarding
PastI, he, she, itwas safeguarding
you, we, theywere safeguarding
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been safeguarding
he, she, ithas been safeguarding
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been safeguarding
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be safeguarding
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been safeguarding
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Be sure to safeguard your passport at all times.
  • Effective programs are available to safeguard your data against computer viruses.
  • The new legislation will safeguard the rights of low-paid workers.
  • Unless we fight pollution now, we cannot safeguard our children's future.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Filing the will with the clerk is simply a way of safeguarding it, and nothing else.
  • It was always an objective of the sadly-moribund Vulcan Association that the future of the aircraft be safeguarded once retired.
  • Smallfry wanted to safeguard him against danger and jealousy.
  • The deal should safeguard thousands of jobs.
  • The humanitarian reasons for safeguarding this provision should be sufficient in themselves.
  • There are also important questions about the handling, safeguarding and transport of missile systems.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
to keep someone or something safe from harm, damage, or illness: · Don’t worry, I’ll protect you.· The government wants to protect the environment.· Eating healthily helps to protect against many diseases.
to protect someone from something harmful: · Wearing a hat offers some protection from the sun.· The drug can give protection against cancer.· The law provides no protection.
to protect a person, place, or object by staying near them and watching them: · Police officers guarded the entrance to the building.· He is guarded by armed men.
to protect someone or something when they are in danger of being harmed or destroyed: · Local people are fighting to save the theatre from demolition.· Emergency aid could save millions of people who are threatened with starvation.
to keep something, especially buildings or the environment, from being harmed, destroyed, or changed too much: · The organization works to preserve forests.· There is little money for preserving historic buildings.
to protect something important, such as people’s rights, interests, jobs, health etc: · The deal will safeguard 200 jobs at the factory.· Laws should do more to safeguard the rights of victims.
to put something in front of something else to protect it. Also used to talk about protecting people from unpleasant situations: · He lifted his hand to shield his eyes from the light.· They thought the public should be shielded from the truth.
to provide a place where someone or something is protected from the weather or from danger: · The village is sheltered by a belt of trees.· His family had sheltered Jews during the war.
British English, harbor American English to help and protect someone who has done something illegal, and prevent the police from finding them: · He is accused of harbouring suspected terrorists.
Longman Language Activatorto prevent someone or something from being harmed or damaged
to keep someone or something safe from harm, injury, damage or illness: · The painting is protected by thick glass.· laws to protect the environment· A series of meetings were held to discuss security issues and teach women employees how to protect themselves.protect somebody/something from something: · Use high-factor sun lotion to protect your child's skin from the sun.protect somebody/something against something: · Garlic was once thought to protect people against evil spirits.
to stay close to a person, a valuable object etc and watch them carefully, in order to make sure that they do not escape, get stolen, or get attacked: · An army lieutenant and 14 soldiers were guarding the air strip.guard somebody/something against somebody/something: · Soldiers have been called in to guard the embassy against further attacks.
to protect something important, for example people's rights, health, or safety - use this especially about organizations and laws that provide protection: · Unless we fight pollution now, we cannot safeguard our children's future.· The new legislation will safeguard the rights of low-paid workers.safeguard something against something: · Effective programs are available to safeguard your data against computer viruses.
to protect someone from something harmful or unpleasant, especially by putting yourself or something else between them and the cause of the harm: · The elderly woman shielded her wounded husband.shield somebody/something from something: · The treated glass shields your eyes from the sun's ultraviolet rays.· Fuel taxes were reduced, shielding industry from the effects of the rise in oil prices.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 The industry has a duty to safeguard consumers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· The goal of child protection services became safeguarding children while also working to reunite them with their abusive parents.
· Five years later, in 1899, he sold it to the Trust to safeguard the future of his plot.· You can help by joining the Research Defence Society and supporting our work to safeguard the future of biological and medical research.· Centre safe: Cleveland County Council has safeguarded the future of the county's busiest tourist information centre for the next year.· Even though she's only 22, she is very keen on safeguarding her future.
· It imposes statutory obligations on employers to set down and implement policy to safeguard the health and safety of their employees.· The Building Regulations are to safeguard the health and safety of those in and around the building.· To safeguard their health in the meantime you could give them advice about how to reduce the risks they are taking.
· The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests.· Yet the argument that Hong Kong could learn from Macau in safeguarding its interests bears little scrutiny.· We are dedicated to improving crop protection while safeguarding the interests of the user, consumer and the environment.· They include setting up a new track authority and consumer committees to safeguard the interest of passengers.· How able or willing have the courts been to safeguard prisoners' interests when conditions under the Act become intolerable?· It is an ambiguous term, with connotations from legal practice of employing a professional to safeguard one's interests.
· The deal should safeguard thousands of jobs.· And it will safeguard hundreds of jobs.· Together, these developments are expected to create or safeguard up to 1,200 jobs.· It will safeguard jobs for at least 3 years.· It will also allow employers to take steps to safeguard jobs and businesses.
· There has been another substantial increase for 1992-93, an increase which safeguards the position of all children in Cambridgeshire.
· By the same token, going to war may be a way of safeguarding security in the long run.
· Doughty would admit that in order to safeguard the welfare state income tax would have to go up.· The statutory responsibilities to safeguard the welfare of the community and children in particular often involves recourse to the courts.
 to protect something from harm or damagesafeguard somebody’s interests/rights/welfare etc The industry has a duty to safeguard consumers. technology that will safeguard the environmentsafeguard something against something a program for safeguarding the computer system against viruses► see thesaurus at protect
safeguard1 verbsafeguard2 noun
safeguardsafeguard2 ●○○ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Anti-virus software is a simple safeguard that many computer users have not bothered to install.
  • As a safeguard against misuse, memorize your PIN number immediately and destroy this advice slip.
  • There's a safeguard built into the tenancy agreement that says the landlord must give you three months' notice to quit.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • It is a safeguard to permit volumes to be regarded as full when exact filling is not possible.
  • Jermyn will hold the information as a personal safeguard for himself against Harold, whom he now hates.
  • Life includes contact with men in a caring situation, ensuring appropriate safeguards are taken.
  • One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards.
  • The nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union was scattered among four new countries with few safeguards.
  • There are safeguards against each of these possibilities.
  • We want something written into the Bill that makes it likely that some of the consumer safeguards will become a reality.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomething that protects someone or something
something that protects you against harm or damage: protection against: · Their light summer clothes were no protection against the bitter cold.give/provide protection (=protect someone): · Vitamin C provides some protection against minor illnesses.protection from: · At the time, the law gave women very little protection from violent husbands.
protective clothes, covers, substances etc protect someone or something from being hurt or damaged: · Wear protective glasses when working with the saw.· Motorcyclists must wear protective helmets.· Remove the disk from its protective packaging.protective gear/clothing: · Burke was not wearing protective gear when the accident happened.
a place where you will be protected from danger or from bad weather: · It began to rain and we all ran for shelter. shelter of: · William hurried towards the shelter of the old cowshed.take shelter (=find a safe place): · People took shelter from the flooding in churches and schools on high ground.bomb shelter (=a place, usually underground, that is safe from bombs): · Underground stations in London were used as bomb shelters during the Second World War.
an object or material that protects someone or something from harm or damage: · Suncream acts as a kind of shield against the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.· The spacecraft is covered in a material that acts as a heat shield.· Before operating this machine, make sure the safety shield is in place.
something that is, for example, fixed to a machine or worn on a part of your body, in order to provide protection against damage or injury: · You can buy guards for electric sockets that make it impossible for little children to stick their fingers into the holes.· Football players are strongly advised to wear shin guards.
a piece of clothing or equipment that you wear or hold to protect a part of your body: · Hockey goalies wear a chest protector that is similar to the one a catcher in baseball wears.· A pocket protector will prevent ink staining your shirt.
something, for example a law or rule, that provides protection against danger, problems, or failure: · There's a safeguard built into the tenancy agreement that says the landlord must give you three months' notice to quit.· Anti-virus software is a simple safeguard that many computer users have not bothered to install.safeguard against: · As a safeguard against misuse, memorize your PIN number immediately and destroy this advice slip.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards.· Even if that is confirmed, it is often unwise not to seek additional safeguards in your contract.· Apart from these weaknesses, the Government has seen fit to deny an additional safeguard which might have been presumed to operate.· Genetically modified organisms: The bill provides for additional safeguards against the import, containment and release of Genetically Modified Organisms.
· Withdrawal before coming is unlikely to be an adequate safeguard as some secretions will still be exchanged.· Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards.· Without adequate built-in safeguards, there will be other Susan Allens who will pull the trigger before they cry for help.
· Dertouzos called for government regulation to prevent the linking of databases containing personal information without certain safeguards.· With certain safeguards for patients who, for example, may require liver transplants in Philadelphia full range fundholding seems a realistic possibility.· This was an additional reason for giving supremacy to the Constitution and for introducing certain extra safeguards into it.
· Those who anticipate that both will be granted will campaign for legislation to enforce a new schedule of environmental safeguards.· At home the administration has abandoned a succession of environmental safeguards.· The Green Party aims to gain concessions on environmental safeguards for nuclear power and on the ingredients of unleaded petrol.· Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards.
· Under nuclear proliferation safeguards, plutonium shipments have to be accompanied by armed vessels.
· Valuing the social benefits and costs of procedural safeguards may be equally problematic.· One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards.· These procedural safeguards apply to most stop and search powers not simply those exercised under the P. & C.E. Act.· Formal justice and procedural safeguards are best for child-care cases, whereas informal methods suit divorce and custody disputes.
· May I wish my hon. and learned Friend well in getting proper safeguards over the vexed problem of undisclosed sites?· We must ensure that there are proper safeguards in legislation.
VERB
· They may also be able to build in some safeguards which would make it possible for them to give permission.
· Genetically modified organisms: The bill provides for additional safeguards against the import, containment and release of Genetically Modified Organisms.· Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount.· Early warning and fault recovery functions of the system also provide a safeguard against operational crises and the risk of human error.
 a rule, agreement etc that is intended to protect someone or something from possible dangers or problems:  International safeguards prevent the increase of nuclear weapons.safeguard against safeguards against the exploitation of children
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