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🇺🇸 /pɹʌzˈɚv/ 🇬🇧 /pɹəˈzɜːv/

noun 编号: P02691 牛津3000 BNC #2287 COCA #2209

preserve 主要表示“保护并保存，使某物不受损坏或腐败”；作名词时还可指果酱类食品、自然保护区或某人的专属领域。

💡 记忆钩子

把东西先护在安全处，让它保持原样：保护文化是 preserve，防止水果腐坏也是 preserve，保存后的水果制成的甜酱叫 preserves；被划出的安全区域或专属范围也可理解为“受到保护、不能随意进入的地方”。

📝 学习建议

先掌握动词“保护、保存”以及“保存食物”，再记名词“果酱”和“保护区”等用法。
作名词表示果酱时常用复数 preserves；不要只把它理解成普通的“保留”，它也常强调防止腐坏或损失。

📖 中文释义

noun

common 果酱；水果蜜饯

📖 指用水果加糖等方式保存后制成的甜酱，核心仍是“把水果保护起来，使它不易坏”。

💡 表示这种食品时常用复数形式 preserves，也可用 a preserve 指一罐或一种果酱。它通常抹在面包上或用于甜点；不要把它泛泛地当作所有果酱的唯一说法，jam 在日常英语中也很常见。

countable uncountable

She spread strawberry preserves on her toast.

她把草莓果酱抹在吐司上。
common 保护区

📖 指被划定并保护起来的自然区域或土地，外人通常不能随意开发或进入。

💡 常见搭配是 nature preserve 或 wildlife preserve，前面可用 a 或 the。它强调保护区域本身，不是“预订的座位”或“预约”。根据上下文，也可译为自然保护区、野生动物保护区等。

countable uncountable

The wetland preserve is home to many rare birds.

这片湿地保护区是许多珍稀鸟类的栖息地。
rare 专属范围

📖 指某人或某个群体拥有、负责或有权处理的领域，好像被划出来并由其守护的范围。

💡 常见结构是 someone’s preserve，语气较正式、文学化，表示某人的专门领域或权限范围。不要在普通对话中用它替代常见的 area、field 或 responsibility。它不一定指实际的土地，而可以指抽象领域。

countable uncountable

preserves plural

verb

core 保护；维护

📖 指采取行动使人、文化、环境或其他重要事物免受伤害或消失，重点是把它安全地守住。

💡 常用结构是 preserve something 或 preserve something from harm；宾语通常是权利、文化、环境、生命等需要保护的事物。语气比 protect 更偏正式，尤其常见于公共政策和书面语。不要说 preserve to someone；应直接接宾语，或用 from 引出要避免的伤害。

We must preserve the forest for future generations.

我们必须保护这片森林，为子孙后代保留下来。

The museum works to preserve the city's history.

这家博物馆致力于保护这座城市的历史。
common 腌制保存

📖 指用糖、盐等方法处理水果、肉类等食物，使它们不易腐坏、可以存放更久。

💡 常用结构是 preserve fruit、preserve meat，或 preserve something in sugar、salt 等介质中。这个意义侧重加工保存，不只是把食物放进冰箱。谈一般的保存食物时，store 或 keep 也很自然；preserve 更突出防腐处理。

They preserve peaches in heavy syrup.

他们把桃子浸在浓糖浆中保存。
core 保持完整；维持

📖 指让某种状态、外观、关系或事物继续存在而不被破坏，例如保持沉默、维护体面或保存原貌。

💡 常见搭配包括 preserve silence、preserve appearances 和 preserve the original character。它通常接抽象名词，表示有意维持某种状态，语气较正式。不要把 preserve silence 理解成“保护声音”，这里是“保持沉默”。

She stayed quiet to preserve peace in the family.

她保持安静，以维护家里的和平。

The renovation preserved the building's original character.

这次翻修保留了这座建筑原有的特色。

preserves present,singular,third-person preserving participle,present preserved participle,past preserved past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 9 组

prevent (food) from rotting;

同义词集: preserve keep

preserved meats

keep potatoes fresh

上位: cook, fix, make, prepare, ready 下位: can, conserve, corn, cure, freeze-dry, pickle, put up, salt, tin

to keep up and reserve for personal or special use

同义词集: save preserve

She saved the old family photographs in a drawer

上位: hold on, keep 下位: conserve, economise, economize, enter, husband, put down, record

keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; ; ;

同义词集: conserve preserve maintain keep up

We preserve these archeological findings

The old lady could not keep up the building

children must be taught to conserve our national heritage

The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts

上位: keep

keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; ;

同义词集: continue uphold carry on bear on preserve

preserve the peace in the family

continue the family tradition

Carry on the old traditions

反义: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop 上位: hold, keep, maintain 下位: hang in, hang on, hold on, keep up, perpetuate, persevere, persist, prolong, re-start, restart, resume, sustain

keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing

同义词集: preserve

preserve the forest and the lakes

上位: hold, keep, maintain

maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger

同义词集: keep preserve

May God keep you

上位: protect

fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

同义词集: conserve preserve conserves preserves

下位: jam, jelly, marmalade

a reservation where animals are protected

同义词集: preserve

上位: reservation, reserve

a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone

同义词集: preserve

medicine is no longer a male preserve

上位: area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere

🌳 词源

源自中古英语，最终来自拉丁语，原意是“预先守护、保持”。

From Middle English preserven, from Old French preserver, from Medieval Latin prēservāre (“keep, preserve”), from Late Latin praeservāre (“guard beforehand”), from prae (“before”, adverb) + servāre (“maintain, keep”). Displaced native Old English nerian.

🔄 变式

preserved past preserves plural preserving present

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