| 词组 | protect |
| 释义 | protect Protect is frequently found with from and a little less frequently (though still quite commonly) with against: • ... the scanty vegetation was insufficient to protect the light soil from blustery winds —Ray Allen Bil-lington, Westward Expansion, 1949 • Mark, being deaf, is protected from her interference —John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, 1957 • He seemed to want to protect her from her worse self —Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar, 1955 • To protect against such an eventuality the treaty contains a safeguarding clause —Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, 1933 • We feel that this step-by-step process is necessary to protect against duplicity —William R. Frye, The Reporter, 22 Sept. 1955 • ... citizens need to be protected against thieves and murderers —Alexander B. Smith & Harriet Pollack, Saturday Rev., 4 Dec. 1971 Protect is also used frequently with by to express a different relation: • He blew hard on hands half protected by shabby woolen mittens —F. Van Wyck Mason, The Winter at Valley Forge, 1953 • I thought it would only be fair to protect the readers of the magazine I was editing by describing my own biases —Nicolas H. Charney, Saturday Rev., 11 Dec. 1971 Protect with appears less often but is not rare either: • ... the mind does not shy away from anything, it does not protect itself with any illusion —I. A. Richards, quoted in F. R. Leavis, The Common Pursuit, 1952 • ... protecting unimportant secrets with mystifying ritual —Frederic L. Paxson, Pre-War Years 19131917, 1936 |
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