preserve against

preserve (someone or something) against (something)

To keep someone or something safe or protected from something. Many of these chemicals used to preserve our foods against decay have deleterious effects on our health. Parents are all so preoccupied with preserving their children against danger that they end up sheltering them from many of the things that make childhoods memorable.

preserve someone or something against something

to guard or protect someone or something against something. (Stilted or old-fashioned in reference to people.) I hope that the vaccine will preserve us against influenza. There is nothing in the jam to preserve it against spoilage.

词组	preserve against
释义	preserve against preserve (someone or something) against (something) To keep someone or something safe or protected from something. Many of these chemicals used to preserve our foods against decay have deleterious effects on our health. Parents are all so preoccupied with preserving their children against danger that they end up sheltering them from many of the things that make childhoods memorable. See also: preserve Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. preserve someone or something against something to guard or protect someone or something against something. (Stilted or old-fashioned in reference to people.) I hope that the vaccine will preserve us against influenza. There is nothing in the jam to preserve it against spoilage. See also: preserve McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: (someone or something) promises well all right a/the feel of (something) (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you a slew of (something) (have) got something going (with someone) a straw will show which way the wind blows a slue of (something) accompanied by accompanied by (someone or something) References in periodicals archive The most recent investigation, which now features in the journal Neuron, has shown that boosting gamma oscillations can improve the connection between nerve cells, reduce inflammation, and preserve against cell death in mouse models of Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's: How light therapy could protect the brain When we build, let us think that we build forever.' With this precept, John Ruskin insisted in The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) that architectural integrity entails a regard for the future: that the buildings of the present ought to respect how generations to come will look upon them, and that they should be constructed, as far as possible, to preserve against their own deliquescence. Material gains Your art is audible, immodest: to preserve against time. Cellophane: An Assay Tuesday first half day we expect negative dynamics to preserve against background of problems in Europe. Veles Capital - Trader's daily - May 14, 2012 Khamkhian has managed to preserve against encroachment about 250 acres of lush, green forest atop the mountain, the only greenery visible amid vast tapioca fields that stretch as far as the eye can see. Toward a Buddhist social ethics: the case of Thailand might preserve against the background of the beginning of auctions by FED. Veles Capital - Daily bonds review - Apr 12, 2011
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