preserve: [14] The -serve of preserve comes from Latin servāre ‘keep safe’ (no relation to servīre ‘serve’, but source also of English conserve, observe, and reserve). Combination with prae- ‘before’ produced medieval Latin praeservāre ‘guard beforehand, take steps to ward off possible harm’, which reached English via Old French preserver. => conserve, observe, reserve
preserve (v.)
late 14c., "keep safe," from Anglo-French preservare, Old French preserver, from Medieval Latin preservare "keep, preserve," from Late Latin praeservare "guard beforehand," from Latin prae "before" (see pre-) + servare "to keep safe" (see observe). As a treatment of fruit, etc., 1570s; of organic bodies from 1610s. Related: Preserved; preserving.
preserve (n.)
"fruit preserved with sugar," c. 1600, from preserve (v.). Earlier it meant "a preservative" (1550s). Sense of "protected place for animals or plants" (a sense more properly belonging to conserve) is from 1807.
雙語例句
1. After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
諾曼征服之后，這片森林成為了皇家狩獵區。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The park was created to preserve some of the forests upstate.
這個公園是為了保護該州最北部地區的一些森林而建的。
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3. Bad driving is not just the preserve of boy racers.
不良駕駛不僅僅是飆車小子們才會做的事。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The conduct of foreign policy is largely the preserve of the president.
外交政策事宜主要由總統專門負責。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Their main job is to preserve health rather than treat illness.