单词	self-protection
释义	self-protection /sɛlfprəˈtɛkʃ(ə)n / noun [mass noun] Protection of oneself or itself.It is here that government is most likely to be acting on the basis of illegitimate considerations such as self-protection, or protection of powerful private groups.... Its message is not only protection of kin but self-protection. I believe that we have an inner sense of self-protection and a fierce protectiveness for our children. Derivatives self-protective /ˌsɛlfprəˈtɛktɪv/ adjective ... Although even earlier thinkers such as Hume, Gibbon, and Voltaire (to name the most notable) had attacked Christianity and superstition, they usually did so under the cover of self-protective irony. How could they participate in an effort that could defend their values, advocate more opening, more understanding, a better and wider vision of the world, and counteract the ongoing self-protective and reactionary state of minds? He was also a self-protective bachelor who fell in love and got married in his 40s, but that comes in the next volume of letters.
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