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A preservationist is someone who works to stop historic places — old buildings, streets, markets, sometimes whole neighbourhoods — from being pulled down or changed beyond recognition. This is not the same as collecting antiques at home. It is about public places, and about history you can still walk through. In city arguments, preservationists often stand against people who want to knock things down and build new. The word can sound political in those fights, though it is not a party name. Though actually, people mix this up with conservationist, who more often protects nature — animals, forests, rivers — rather than old houses. A preservationist saves the building; a preservative (a very different word) is a chemical in food.
古蹟／文化資產保存人士
組成preservation (the work of keeping something from being destroyed) + -ist (a person who does that).
同家族的字
- preservationthe work of keeping something from harm or destruction; this names the person
- preservethe verb at the root: to keep something from being lost or ruined
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
preservationistnoun
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A person who advocates for the preservation of natural or man-made landmarks.
- Thanks to cheap storage and easy copying, our digital souls have the potential to be truly immortal. But do we really want everything we’ve done online – offhand comments, camera-phone snaps or embarrassing surfing habits – to be preserved for posterity? One school of thought, the “preservationists”, believes we owe it to our descendants.
- Last, but very much not least, are the portals of the Ffestiniog Railway's Moelwyn Tunnel. The tunnel's story itself is well told - it was part of the preservationists' deviation required to get around a reservoir that had flooded the earlier route. But the reason for its inclusion here is that it is probably the most recently constructed, properly architected tunnel portal in Britain.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。