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Protest 例:The Verb Publicly Object Case 英[ˈprəʊtest 美[ˈproʊtest

单词 protest
音标
英[ˈprəʊtest] 美[ˈproʊtest]
解释
n.抗议;反对;申明;
例句

VERB
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.
例:Groups of women took to the streets to protest against the arrests...成群结队的妇女上街抗议逮捕行动。
例:The students were protesting at overcrowding in the university hostels...学生们在抗议大学宿舍过于拥挤。

N-VAR
抗议;反对
A protest is the act of saying or showing publicly that you object to something.
例:The opposition now seems too weak to stage any serious protests against the government...反对党现在似乎势力非常弱小,无法针对政府发起真正的抗议。
例:The unions called a two-hour strike in protest at the railway authority's announcement.各工会号召罢工两小时,以对铁路当局所发通告表示抗议。

VERB
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.
例:When we tried to protest that Mo was beaten up they didn't believe us...我们试图申明莫遭到了毒打,他们却不相信我们。
例:'I never said any of that to her,' he protested...“我从来没有对她那么说过,”他申辩道。

N-COUNT
申明;声明;断言
A protest that something is true is a strong declaration that it is true.
例:That was how she usually dealt with their protests that she was spoiling her grandchildren.当他们坚持说她是在溺爱孙儿,她通常会作出那样的回应。
变形
third:protests~done:protested~pl:protests~ing:protesting~past:protested~

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