讓食物不壞
要擋住的東西變成腐壞：用糖、鹽、醋或低溫把時間擋在外面，讓食物維持能吃的狀態。
preserve food · verb · B2
To treat food in a special way so that it stays good and does not go bad for a long time.
醃製／保存(食物)
核心畫面
Picture putting something valuable out of harm's way and standing guard over it: time, weather and other people would all change it, and you are keeping it exactly as it is. Jam in a sealed jar and a forest closed to outsiders are the same act — holding something safe against what would otherwise get at it.
可以想成：把一樣珍貴的東西收到安全的地方，然後守著它——時間、天氣、別人都會讓它變樣，而你要讓它保持原樣。封在罐子裡…更多收起
可以想成：把一樣珍貴的東西收到安全的地方，然後守著它——時間、天氣、別人都會讓它變樣，而你要讓它保持原樣。封在罐子裡的果醬和不對外開放的森林其實是同一個動作：擋住那些本來會侵蝕它的東西。From the picture
留給特定人的地盤
要擋在外面的變成人：一塊地或一個領域被圈起來留給特定的人，其他人不得進入。
game preserve · noun · B2
An area of land or water that is kept for a person or group to hunt or fish in.
(私人)獵場／保護區
Also in this word
keep safe · verb · B2
To keep something safe so that it is not harmed, lost, or destroyed.
保護／保存
maintain unchanged · verb · B2
To make something stay the same and continue without changing.
維持
原始詞典資料6 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。
preservenoun/pɹəˈzɜːv/
- 1
A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.
- 2
A reservation, a nature preserve.
- Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in Sir Thomas Lucy's preserves, the world would have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher gone to the well, the scythe to the corn, and the student to his book; and no one been any the wiser of the loss.
- 3
An exclusive area of activity.
- Kids regard their tree houses as their own preserve.
- No one can argue with that—neither the Army Commander nor Zhilinsky nor even the Grand Duke. That is the Emperor’s preserve. The Emperor says France must be saved. We can only do his bidding.
preserveverb/pɹəˈzɜːv/
- 1
To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
- Let's pray that we'd be preserved from danger.
- Every people has the right to preserve its identity and culture.
- 2
To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
- to preserve peaches or grapes
- 3
To maintain throughout; to keep intact.
- to preserve appearances; to preserve silence
- I preserved a composed manner throughout the interrogation.
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。