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safely

/seyf/US // seɪf //UK // (seɪf) //

安全地,安全,安全的,安全地进行

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    saf·er, saf·est.

    • : secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
    • : free from hurt, injury, danger, or risk: to arrive safe and sound.
    • : involving little or no risk of mishap, error, etc.: a safe estimate.
    • : dependable or trustworthy: a safe guide.
    • : careful to avoid danger or controversy: a safe player; a safe play.
    • : denied the chance to do harm; in secure custody: a criminal safe in jail.
    • : Baseball. reaching base without being put out: safe on the throw to first base.making it possible to reach a base: a safe slide.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Informal. in a safe manner; safely: Learn how to drive safe.See Grammar note at adverb.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a steel or iron box or repository for money, jewels, papers, etc.
    • : any receptacle or structure for the storage or preservation of articles: a meat safe.
    • : a pan for catching leakage.template.
    • : Slang. a condom.

Phrases

  • safe and sound
  • safe as houses
  • better safe than sorry
  • on the safe side
  • play it safe

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • As entomologists, we believe that introducing insects in the classroom, paired with teaching students about insect behavior and environmental roles, will give students a safe place to observe and appreciate these organisms.

  • It’s to focus on all the measures that will keep them — and their families, friends and neighbors — safe outside the classroom.

  • I’m there to learn, I’m there to feel safe, and I just didn’t.

  • It would be safe to assume that Romney would be one of those two Republicans.

  • It’s the cost of keeping a society safe so that soon we can throw away the masks, smile with more than our eyes and hug tight the people who are suffering most of all.

  • Had they been properly trained, they could and should have flown themselves safely out of the emergency.

  • With the midterm elections safely in the rearview mirror, Obama is on legacy patrol.

  • The Affordable Care Act is safely embedded, with repeal unlikely even with a freshly minted Republican Senate.

  • Or bold stands that may not preserve our security today or tomorrow, but keep our principles safely intact?

  • When you are safely out, you give your password to the smuggler who calls it in to the broker to release the funds.

  • We do not know here what became of her, whether she was lost or arrived safely in Nueva España.

  • Immediately Messa went up the stairs, and safely reached a large room where two candles were burning on a buffet.

  • Next morning Rome rang with the affair; by noon all three Englishmen were safely over the frontier.

  • This is one of the truths which sloth, rapacity and extravagance are slow to learn, yet which they cannot safely ignore.

  • And it may safely be said that with its improvement, has arisen also the extension and wide spread practice of music generally.