守得住的地方
字面本身，也是整個字的原點。
adjective · C1
A building, town, or piece of land that is defensible can be protected without too much trouble if someone attacks it, usually because of where it sits or how it is built.
易守的；守得住的
核心畫面
Something is being pushed at, and it holds. Start with the concrete version: a town on a cliff with one narrow road in, so a few people can keep it. The ground does the work. Now keep the holding and drop the hill, and you have the other half of the word - a view that people push at from every side and that does not give way. In both, the word says nothing about who is right; it says the thing can be held.
可以想成：有東西在往裡推，而它沒有垮。先看具體的那一半：一座蓋在懸崖上的城，上去只有一條窄路，所以少少的人就守得住—…更多收起
可以想成：有東西在往裡推，而它沒有垮。先看具體的那一半：一座蓋在懸崖上的城，上去只有一條窄路，所以少少的人就守得住——地形幫你扛了大部分。接著把山拿掉，只留下「守得住」這件事，就是另一半：一個被四面追問的說法，推不倒。兩邊都一樣，這個字不談誰對，只談撐不撐得住。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives defense plus -ible, through Old French defensable from Latin defensibilem: literally able to be defended. Both halves of the modern word are that literal sense, one applied to ground and one to ideas.
依 Wiktionary，這個字是 defense 加 -ible，經由古法文 defensable、拉丁文 defensibilem 進入英文，字面就是「可以被守住的」。現代的兩個意思其實都還是這個字面：一個守的是地，一個守的是說法。
Wiktionary (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1074839947:8523), etymology_text supplied in this packet
Two branches
守得住的說法
把山拿掉，只留下「被推而不垮」。推過來的不再是人，而是質疑。
adjective · C1
If an opinion, decision, or action is defensible, you can give good reasons for it, so it holds up when other people push against it.
站得住腳的