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safe harbor

安全港,安全港口,避风港,安保

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
    • : any place or situation that offers refuge or protection.

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Examples

  • Spurned by Eleanor, Marie becomes an abbess at a secluded country abbey and eventually rises to become a powerful political figure in her own right, turning her abbey into an isolated safe harbor for the women she takes under her protection.

  • The safe harbor for cybercriminals, combined with the mostly unregulated cryptocurrency used to facilitate the crime, has made it very favorable for the hackers.

  • The sweeping recommendations highlighted the need for a coordinated international law-enforcement effort to halt countries from providing safe harbor to criminal enterprises.

  • Less a home for actual wards of the state than a safe harbor for the Touched of all ages, the place hosts a menagerie of female misfits.

  • And it must make sure that the platform of debate where we can freely exchange ideas is safe and sound.

  • They called for peace, reconciliation, and the safe return of Father Gregorio.

  • Their leader, Njie, still going by “Dave” during the operation, would stay a safe distance away until the State House was secure.

  • “If Charleston harbor needs improvement, let the commerce of Charleston bear the burden,” he said.

  • It is, Zelden said, “unthinkable” that Scalise would harbor these views.

  • A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.

  • The governor of the fortress was provided with a safe residence in Egypt, and an annual pension of 75,000 piasters.

  • Could this be the safe old house in which childish days had passed, in which all around were always friendly and familiar faces?

  • The truth is, it is not safe to trot down such mountains and hardly to ride down them at all.

  • What reliance could repose upon a house, divided against itself—not safe from the extravagance and pillage of its own members?