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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

保护

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bǎohù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Conserve/kənˈsɜːv/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2800 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我们必须保护自然资源。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To protect something, especially an environment, traditional culture, or resource, from harm or destruction.

    "Efforts are being made to conserve water during the severe drought."
  2. 2

    To keep and protect something from waste, loss, or damage.

    "He walked slowly to conserve his energy for the final leg of the race."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb conservare, composed of con- (denoting intensive action) and servare (meaning to keep, watch over, or preserve). It entered Middle English via Old French conserver in the late 14th century, initially retaining its broad religious and protective senses before specializing in ecological and resource management in the modern era.

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