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词汇 haven
释义 haven
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈheɪ.vən/ us /ˈheɪ.vən/

havennoun[C] (SAFE PLACE)


a safe or peaceful place: 安全的地方;和平之地
haven fromThe garden was a haven from the noise and bustle of the city.这个花园是块远离喧嚣都市的静地。
safe havenThey wanted to provide safe havens for the refugees.他们想为难民们提供安全的避难场所。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Safe & enclosed spaces
awning
bolthole
booth
bunker
bus shelter
carrel
childproof
childproofing
cocoon
foxhole
hideaway
hideout
hidey-hole
hiding place
refuge
retreat
safe haven
safe house
sanctuary
sanctuary city

havennoun[C] (SMALL PORT)


an area of water next to the coast where ships and boats can shelter, or a small port:
These days the port is mainly used as a haven for small fishing boats.
He sailed the boat straight to the nearest pirate haven to recruit a real crew.
They keep their boat in the pretty haven of Lymington.
We drove into the car park at Martin's Haven from where the boat leaves for Skomer.
They stopped off in small harbours, boat havens and coves along the way.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ports & docks
anchorage
boatyard
breakwater
container port
container terminal
derrick
dock
dockyard
dry dock
harbour master
marina
passport control
port
quay
quayside
shipyard
slip
slipway
terminal
wharf

haven | American Dictionary


haven
noun[ C ]
us/ˈheɪ·vən/
a safe or peaceful place

haven | Business English


haven
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈheɪvən/us
a safe place, especially a country where you can keep your money protected:
The island's tax regulations are so lax that it has become a haven for owners of offshore companies.
See also
safe haven
tax haven

Examples of haven


haven
The theory of pollution havens is straightforward; however, empirical evidence for their existence is mixed.
Thus, the parent as well as the infant should experience a volition to seek a haven of safety if sufficiently alarmed.
One would imagine them to be havens for the multitudes of unemployed and underemployed youths, many of them rural migrants.
The idea of the region as a safe haven for the generation of ideas also underlies initiatives for regional programmes with civil society organisations.
Therefore, the demand for the pollution haven countries' exports of dirty industries should increase.
What will become of her when the rags of our bodies fall away, and we too reach for the haven of lives not our own?
The authors find, for example, no clear evidence of incapacity benefit being used as a more comfortable haven by the unemployed.
The pollution haven hypothesis asserts that due to strict environmental protection in developed economies, pollution-intensive industries tend to move to developing countries.
Nevertheless, being accepted by any such host country would imply the closure of other countries as haven.
They had refused to leave home for the safe haven of a shelter, to the dismay of media pundits and authorities.
The family as haven acquired a new meaning in the colonial context.
Many scholars also attribute the lack of evidence for pollution havens to the relatively small role that pollution abatement costs have in firms' location decisions.
The impact of trade appears to vary by pollutant, with only sulphur dioxide showing evidence of both factor endowment and pollution haven effects.
In addition, the state had an interest in ensuring that the medreses would not become safe havens for draft dodgers.
Previous empirical tests of the pollution haven hypothesis provide mixed results.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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