preservation
/ˌpɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/ 名词 B1中文： 保存
- The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
- The state of being preserved, how something has survived.
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May God accept my atonement in the preservation of these two existences!”
“The letter shall certainly be burnt, if you believe it essential to the preservation of my regard; but, though we have both reason to think my opinions not entirely unalterable, they are not, I hope, quite so easily changed as that implies.”
And if I do not possess that talent, which your smiles prove to me you doubt, should I not still have that ardent love of independence, which will be a substitute for wealth, and which in my mind supersedes even the instinct of self-preservation?
Elizabeth particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill applied.
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