1Keep safe from harm or injury.

他尽力保护凯丽不受袭击。

1. 1.1often as adjective protected Aim to preserve (a threatened plant or animal species) by legislating against collecting or hunting.
   （通过立法禁止采集或狩猎）保护（濒危动植物）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Woodland at the back of the car park is also home to stag beetles, a partially protected species, and has been listed as an archaeology priority zone.
   • Environmental and ecological surveys were carried out before work started to ensure protected species which could have been inhabiting the area were not disturbed.
   • The super predator of the times, the tiger, is perhaps the most high profile species being protected against a host of threats from humans.
   • Has the Minister received any proposals that possums, stoats, and any other invasive species be protected by the Department of Conservation for the benefit of game hunters?
   • After all, our ‘protected species’ must remain protected!
   • Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, anyone killing a protected bird or animal faces fines of up £5,000 and possible imprisonment.
   • As for the wild yak, all that shooting over the years has decimated its numbers so that the wild animals are now a protected species with their own nature preserve.
   • At least eight other glacial relict snail species are also protected on these sites.
   • Finally, there is no evidence to suggest that the proposed development would reduce security, jeopardise protected wildlife species or put pressure on local facilities or services in the area.
   • How can wild species be protected if you are unprepared to upset the farmers and tackle the degradation of the countryside caused by the common agricultural policy?
   • More than 70 per cent of these were from species protected by international law.
   • Sichang Island is also home to the white squirrel, an exotic rare species now protected by preservation laws enacted in 1994.
   • Lack of socialization of the law by the conservation office is frequently blamed for the flourishing trade in souvenirs made from protected animal parts in the province.
   • In Australia, South Africa, and California, three of the epicenters of the great white's activity, the infamous species is protected by law.
   • The 60 New Zealand species are protected by law and humans can no longer collect and keep them.
   • Nobody had made them aware of which species were protected by law.
   • We must continue to try to protect the many species that are being threatened with extinction by our actions.
   • Fortunately, many of our delisted species are protected by other pieces of legislation.
   • The beech, ash and holly trees on the site are all protected by tree preservation orders and the parish council was asked to submit a planning application, which it did.
   • Networks of reserves, areas where species are protected, are recognized as an important instrument for conserving marine wildlife.
2. 1.2often as adjective protected Restrict by law access to or development of (land) so as to preserve its natural state.
   （通过法律）保护（土地）自然状态
   logging is continuing in protected areas in violation of an international agreement

   树木采伐在保护区继续泛滥，违反了国际公约。

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   • Sadly all these developments are taking place in areas that were previously protected from any tourist development projects.
   • The area of blanket bog protected is 35,397 ha, or 88% of the official blanket bog target.
   • None of the sites are protected from agricultural development.
   • The local council plans to demolish over 400 houses in blocks immediately adjacent to almost indistinguishable streets protected as a conservation area.
   • This ‘new’ land is increasingly being taken from areas with deep peat soils and is thus nominally protected from development.
   • The final hurdle has at last been overcome in the battle to give Middleton protected Conservation Area status.
   • In the last 70 years, extirpations have continued even in natural areas protected in parks.
   • Up until then, they'd been a relatively protected species.
   • Water quality in reservoirs will also be improved and the forests in their catchment areas better protected.
   • Many of the actions required are already within the scope of existing conventions concerned with wildlife conservation, insofar as they list marine species or marine protected areas on their annexes.
   • In the southeast quadrant, the remaining primary forest has been set aside as a conservation area protected by legislation and supernatural strictures.
   • The decision opens the previously protected areas to development.
   • Even areas protected as parkland have suffered significant losses of native plant species.
   • The county development plan envisioned The Curragh being designated a national park and protected from development as an Area of Special Amenity.
   • None of the commercial hunters I have met would have starved if he had refrained from hunting totally protected species.
   • At the moment less than 5% of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is actually protected as no-take areas and that clearly has to change.
   • Known endangered species are currently protected from any form of testing by law, with the exception of testing a cure which may be for the benefit of the particular species.
   • They are also involved in improving public access, protecting agricultural lands, and restoring urban waterfronts.
   • Since then areas have been marked off as reef preserves or protected areas, and many of the dive sites have been buoyed.
   • National Park chiefs have given two Dales villages conservation area status to protect them from inappropriate development.

   Synonyms

   secured, sheltered, in safe hands, safe, guarded, out of danger, safeguarded, preserved
3. 1.3 (of an insurance policy) promise to pay (someone) an agreed amount in the event of loss, injury, fire, theft, or other misfortune.
   （保险单）为（某人）保险
   in the event of your death, your family will be protected against any financial problems that may arise

   如果你身故，你家人会有保障，免于可能产生的任何经济问题。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Collision Damage Waver insurance is important but only protects you from financial loss in respect to the vehicle.
   • You can't eliminate the risks of travel, but travel insurance can protect you against financial loss.
   • Insurance protects you against assorted material and personal losses; surety bonding promises performance on contracts.
   • Watercraft liability covers you just like car liability insurance protects you in the event of an accident where you are found to be at fault.
   • Basic coverage will protect you against fire, vandalism, lightning, and water damage.
4. 1.4Economics Shield (a domestic industry) from competition by imposing import duties on foreign goods.
   〔经济〕（对国外商品征收进口税以）保护（国内工业）
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   • A new structure of tariffs on imports is designed to further protect Russian industries from foreign competition.
   • High-cost industries were protected from competition by institutional privileges and geographical barriers to trade.
   • He said in this case it was the duty of the Government to set up safeguard measures to protect the domestic industry.
   • An attempt to protect domestic industry can do nothing to change this reality.
   • The Republicans claimed that such interventions were necessary not only for financing government but also for protecting domestic industry and jobs.
5. 1.5Computing Restrict access to or use of (data or a memory location)
   〔计算机〕保护（数据或储存库）
   security products are designed to protect information from unauthorized access

   安保产品的设计旨在保护信息免遭非法进入。

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   • It also protects information stored on memory cards.
   • When you submit sensitive information via the Web site, your information is protected both online and off-line.
   • The locked box may be an operating system using a secure file system to protect data from unauthorized access.
   • These domains were protected from one another by internal firewalls and perimeter security.
   • Additionally, the company agreed not to misrepresent the extent to which it protects customer information from unauthorized access.