2020-05-11

[soraliu]

  preserve
/priˈzərv/

verb
    maintain (something) in its original or existing state.
        - "The record office provides a window on Wiltshire and Swindon's past by preserving many thousands of documents produced by individuals and organisations in their day-to-day lives down the centuries."
    Synonyms: conserve, protect, maintain, care for, look after

noun
    food made with fruit preserved in sugar, such as jam or marmalade.
        - "They need to be combined with sugar and made into some kind of preserve , like the traditional rowan jelly often served with roast venison, wood pigeon or wild duck."
    Synonyms: jam, jelly, marmalade, conserve, fruit spread

    a sphere of activity regarded as being reserved for a particular person or group.
        - "Cyberspace is no longer the preserve of English speakers."
    Synonyms: domain, area, field, sphere, orbit, realm, province, territory, turf, bailiwick

    a place where game is protected and kept for private hunting or shooting.
        - "Yet, the buzzard does not exist in such numbers for it to be a constant danger to the game preserves , and quite rightly it has been placed upon the list of protected birds."
    Synonyms: sanctuary, (game) reserve, reservation, protected area

Synonyms
    verb
        - guard, protect, keep, defend, safeguard, shelter, shield
        - continue (with), conserve, keep going, maintain, uphold, sustain, perpetuate
        - conserve, protect, maintain, care for, look after
        - conserve, bottle, can, freeze, dry, freeze-dry, cure, smoke, pickle
        - bear on, continue, carry on, uphold
        - conserve, maintain, keep up
        - keep
        - save

    noun
        - sanctuary, (game) reserve, reservation, protected area
        - domain, area, field, sphere, orbit, realm, province, territory, turf, bailiwick
        - jam, jelly, marmalade, conserve, fruit spread
        - preserves, conserves, conserve

Examples
    - Despite rumblings in the media that classical music is only the preserve of the middle-aged and middle-class, Classic FM has shown otherwise.

    - But cloning proponents counter that not taking action to preserve or restore species is also playing God.

    - There is, however, enough money available to maintain and preserve the mill in good working order.

    - With few around to own the enormous houses he created in Park Circus, the area became the preserve of lawyers, surveyors and other professionals who have their offices there.

    - What about the reverse situation, where the public wants to preserve an existing building rather than require the inclusion of certain aesthetic features in new ones?

    - In American academia, the study of Islamic cultures in Africa has long been the preserve of specialists.

    - He then opened a jar of cherry preserve, spooned some out, and put it in his mouth.

    - His purpose in producing these was to preserve the existing structure of states in Germany and to confirm the security of Protestants in Germany.

    - I used a homemade raspberry and red currant preservefrom last summer - delicious!

    - Mr. Cheney had previously come under criticism for a pheasant hunt in which he shot dozens of pen-raised birds on a hunting preserve near Pittsburgh.

    - I mean, historically, universities fought very hard to preserve their independence and autonomy.

    - Farmer Dan Giles turned 2,000 of his 3,000 acres into a hunting preserve for deer, turkey and quail.

    - On Thursday one mother arrived with a jar of a Russian fruit preserve that was her son's favourite food.

    - Weardale was at this time a forested area that belonged to the Bishops of Durham, who used it as a hunting preserve.

    - This is a mainly male preserve and picnics flourish throughout the summer on match days.

    - Previously, this was the preserve of government officials only but Commissioner for Tourism Eva Cheng confirmed that the government was considering a public element.

    - With an already existing building the challenge is to personalize and humanize the existing spaces and to preserve those spaces that enhance community.

    - If we do none of those things, and leave rail fares to the pressures of the market, then trains will increasingly become the preserve of the rich.

    - It is a time not only to preserve the existing buildings but enhance the character of Bradford and provide complementary new architecture.

    - Such would preserve the existing ecology and prevent further development of residences and/or services.

    - Hurricane victims can use ice to refrigerate food, preserve medicine, and cool off in the summer heat.

    - But the truth is, this area is designed more to preserve and display species than it is to educate people about them.

    - Indeed, environmentally desirable goods sometimes clash one with another - measures to preserve one rare species might endanger another.

    - Limit your aerobic activity to three or four times a week, and not more than 40 minutes a session, if you want to preserve your existing muscle mass.

    - How can western educators help preserve threatened languages?

    - The landowner may feel a guilt of sorts when he converts the land into a hunting preserve.

    - His view is that the primary responsibility of governments is to implement justice, whereas charity is the preserve of individuals.

    - Yet, as after the First World War, there were also strong forces at work to preserve traditions and existing interests.

    - But some are beginning to participate in an activity once thought to be the preserve</b
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    - New technology is available to all age groups, it is not the preserve of young people.

[soraliu]

  We will do everything to preserve peace

我们将竭尽全力维护和平
(Wǒmen jiāng jiéjìn quánlì wéihù hépíng)

Translations of We will do everything to preserve peace
[ English -> 简体中文 ]

We will do everything to preserve peace
    我们将竭尽全力维护和平, 我们将尽一切努力维护和平

[soraliu]

  muscles

noun
    a band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body.
        - "The processes that bring about movement of the voluntary muscles of the body start on the surface of the brain in an area called the motor cortex."

    physical power; strength.
        - "A matter of a difference in opinion should not be settled with muscle rather than the brain."
    Synonyms: strength, power, muscularity, brawn, burliness, beef, beefiness, thew

verb
    move (an object) in a particular direction by using one's physical strength.
        - "He muscles the log toward the opposite bank, crouches atop a slick boulder, and steadies the log."

Synonyms
    noun
        - strength, power, muscularity, brawn, burliness, beef, beefiness, thew
        - influence, power, strength, might, force, forcefulness, weight, clout
        - muscleman
        - muscularity, heftiness, sinew, brawniness, brawn

See also
    muscle

[soraliu]

  monolithic
/ˌmänəˈliTHik/

adjective
    formed of a single large block of stone.
        - "This section was conceived as having been carved out of a single monolithic block."

    (of an organization or system) large, powerful, and intractably indivisible and uniform.
        - "The media system is not monolithic - dissident material does appear, comparatively honest documentaries are seen."
    Synonyms: inflexible, rigid, unbending, unchanging, fossilized

    (of a solid-state circuit) composed of active and passive components formed in a single chip.
        - "The monolithic processors in the desktop field will have a single diode."

Synonyms
    adjective
        - inflexible, rigid, unbending, unchanging, fossilized
        - massive, huge, vast, colossal, gigantic, immense, giant, enormous, featureless, characterless
        - massive, monumental

Examples
    - However, such monolithic, single-structure buildings are a symbol of the inefficient central bureaucracies of the past.

    - With the movement against a monolithic world-economic system, people can once again see the enemy more clearly.

    - The vanguard is there already in the monolithic casino that dominates the harbour area, where the ferries from Hong Kong disgorge their passengers.

    - From the U.S. perspective, the concept of government-funded media has an air of propaganda and monolithic ideology.

    - We have a monolithic economy with very little vigour.

    - This section was conceived as having been carved out of a single monolithic block.

    - His commenters show the typically depressing blogger mindset of treating us journalists like a monolithic social block that all behave the same way.

    - Industrial buildings tend to be large, monolithic, brown, bulky, and not subtle.

    - The black, monolithic tower block, which is largely empty, is to be overhauled and the multi-storey car park demolished under current proposals.

    - The culture of the police - the values, norms, perspectives, and craft rules that inform their conduct - is neither monolithic, universal nor unchanging.

    - For years the Dundee skyline was dominated by the monolithic tower blocks of the Ardler housing estate.

    - Had the obelisk been successfully completed, it would be the single heaviest piece of monolithic stonework reaching about 42 m and weighing over 1168 tonnes.

    - Here the caged stone is simply a uniform external layer, but its monolithic appearance will 
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be eventually transformed by vegetation implanted within it.

    - Enormous monolithic buildings, windowless and scaleless, were separated by vast boulevards.

    - The problem is that a society like autocratic 19th century St. Petersburg - like our monolithicand faceless corporate culture - doesn't work like that.

    - Its application to electronics collected a number of well-known technologies to produce useful monolithic circuits.

    - The phrase suggests a monolithic entity with a single purpose.

    - Carved to represent Mt. Kailasa, the home of the god Shiva in the Himalayas, it is the largest monolithic structure in the world, carved top-down from a single rock.

    - According to Novak, the building's final design will have the sleek, monolithic look of a tall office tower.

    - It was still dark outside, though thin tendrils of light were warming the horizon, shining an eerie glow on the monolithic buildings to the south.

    - The French army was not a monolithic organization.

    - This 1980-81 piece is his last monolithic sculpture and his last to be of a single material.

    - This is an ancient place where the flat landscape is broken by huge monolithic mountainous outcrops that silently remind you that this is how it's been for countless millennia.

    - By the end of the 1800s and early 1900s, those small factories gave birth to the monolithic glass and steel mills that lined the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers.

    - At the end of the path was a doorway, which led into one of the monolithic buildings.

    - It would, however, be a mistake to view all these characteristics of manliness and masculinity as monolithic and static.

    - The motion is sensed by an accelerometer disposed within the device that is formed of a monolithic integrated circuit chip.

    - The media system is not monolithic- dissident material does appear, comparatively honest documentaries are seen.

    - The two approaches currently used for optical-component integration - hybrid and monolithic- both display distinct limitations.

    - This study breaks down this monolithic characterization of the administrative apparatus by moving officials from all levels to the forefront.

[soraliu]

  字母
(Zìmǔ)

letter

Definitions of 字母
[ 简体中文 -> English ]

noun
    letter
        信, 字母, 函件, 函, 信件, 书
    alphabet
        字母, 初步
    letter of the alphabet
        字母
    ABC
        字母, 初步, 原则, 原理

字母
    letter, Alphabet

[soraliu]

  alphabet
/-bit,ˈalfəˌbet/

字母
(Zìmǔ)

Definitions of alphabet
[ English -> 简体中文 ]

noun
    字母
        letter, alphabet, letter of the alphabet, ABC
    初步
        introduction, rudiment, principium, accidence, ABC, alphabet

alphabet
    字母

[soraliu]

  floor
/flôr/

地板
(Dìbǎn)

Definitions of floor
[ English -> 简体中文 ]

noun
    地板
        floor
    楼
        floor, storied building
    楼层
        floor
    地面
        ground, floor, surface
    层
        layer, level, floor, storey, stratum
    楼面
        floor

verb
    铺
        spread, lay, floor, pave, tile, extend
    铺砌
        pave, floor

adjective
    最小的
        youngest, floor
    最低的
        floor

floor
    地板, 楼, 楼层