英语单词 | protest |
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英美音标 | 英 ['prəʊtest] 美 ['proʊtest] |
中文释义 | n.抗议;反对 v.抗议;反对;申明;断言 |
英语例句 | (1) Half a million people held a mass protest against racism last night. (2) Some delegates walked out in a show of protest. (3) The minister resigned in protest against the decision. (4) They protested to the mayor that the taxes were too high. (5) She protested strongly at being called a snob. (6) He protested his innocence. |
中文例句 | (1) 昨晚50万人举行了大规模的抗议活动反对种族歧视。 (2) 有几位代表退出会场以示抗议。 (3) 这位部长为反对那项决策而辞职。 (4) 他们向市长提出抗议说税款过高。 (5) 她极力反对别人说她势利眼。 (6) 他声言自己无罪。 |
vocabulary简明 | A protest is a formal declaration of objection. When there are big meetings of powerful countries and corporations, there are often protests staged in front of the meeting building, by people who think that what's happening inside is wrong. |
vocabulary扩展 | Protest is both a noun and a verb. You've probably seen news about protests, because people all over the world organize them when they need to get a message across urgently. A protest doesn't have to be on the world scale, however. You might protest against eating frozen pizza for the third night in a row, and you've certainly seen a little kid protest against going to bed. When protest is political, it's also known as dissent. |
柯林斯解释 | The verb is pronounced /prə'test/. The noun is pronounced /'prəʊtest/. 动词读作 /prə'test/,名词读作 /'prəʊtest/。 1 [VERB 动词]抗议;提出异议;反对 If you protest against something or about something, you say or show publicly that you object to it. In American English, you usually say that you protest it. [V [V n] [V]
2 [N-VAR 可变名词]抗议;反对 A protest is the act of saying or showing publicly that you object to something. [oft N
3 [VERB 动词]申辩;申明 If you protest that something is the case, you insist that it is the case, when other people think that it may not be. [V that] [V with quote] [V n]
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]申明;声明;断言 A protest that something is true is a strong declaration that it is true. [usu N that]
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