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safety net

安全网,安全網,安全网络,保险网

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large net rigged between a person, as a trapeze performer, and the ground as protection in a fall.
    • : something that provides a margin of protection or security: the safety net of federal credit for financial institutions.

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Examples

  • Your people will give it their best when they know a company is there as a safety net to support them through these really difficult times.

  • All these highlight the precarious nature of small scale farming and the need for better protections and safety nets to help mitigate the risk of trying to earn a livelihood.

  • All of this presents an opportunity to fix a fundamental part of our safety net, one that’s been ignored for decades, according to Newman of the Altarum Institute.

  • She’s on the front lines, doing her best to scrape by, with no social safety net to bail her out.

  • The good news is that we know how to design that sort of safety net.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • “This is the only place in the souk you can buy safety pins,” he said.

  • The accident rate in Asia has marred what was in 2014 a banner year for aviation safety.

  • Not for the benefit of the harasser, of course, but for your own safety.

  • There was virtually no government oversight of safety and operational standards.

  • Specimens were easily collected in a mist net placed across the opening.

  • To Berthier, if to any one, Bonaparte entrusted his secret designs, for he knew that he could do so in safety.

  • These residents then killed the parish priest, and without arms fled for safety to the mountain ravines.

  • Juan de Messa lost his head, and ran down stairs, thinking that his safety lay there.

  • In short, in a few minutes, he might have the safety of his father, and the preservation of Europe in his hand.