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词汇 safety-valve
释义 safety valve
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈseɪf.ti ˌvælv/ us /ˈseɪf.ti ˌvælv/

safety valvenoun[C] (MACHINE)


a small part on a machine that allows steam or gas to escape if the pressure inside the machine becomes too high安全阀
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Machines - parts
air compressor
air filter
air hose
axle
coaster brake
collector plate
console
guard
inlet
manifold
mechanism
pivot
rack
rack and pinion
ratchet
slide
slider
soft key
spline
stepney

safety valvenoun[C] (FEELINGS)


a way of getting rid of strong feelings without causing harm: 发泄情绪的途径,疏导情绪的方法
For many people who suffer from stress at work, sport is a vital safety valve.对许多承受工作压力的人来说,体育运动是一个重要的减压方法。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Strong feelings
afire
agonized
all-consuming
anguish
anguished
ardent
fierily
fit to burstidiom
flamingly
fulminating
grip
passions run highidiom
penetratingly
pungently
quiveringly
rabidly
smoulder
tempestuous
tingle
torrid

safety valve | American Dictionary


safety valve
noun[ C ]
us/ˈseɪf·ti ˌvælv/
a device on a machine that allows steam or gas to escape if there is too much pressure:
fig. For people with stressful jobs, weekends in the country can be a good safety valve.

safety valve | Business English


safety valve
noun[ C ]
ukus
PRODUCTION
a part of a machine that opens to release pressure if it becomes too high:
The process involves shutting safety valves beneath the water's surface to prevent oil and gas releases.
something in a system or situation that helps when problems become too great:
Experts say there must be a safety valve built into the system to relieve the stress caused by an economic slowdown.
There's no safety valve, like higher air fare prices, to offset higher oil prices.

Examples of safety valve


safety valve
The continuous decline in precious-metal content was the safetyvalve that made possible the stability of prices expressed in trade coins.
It also analyses how the periphery both challenged the hegemonic dreams of planned communities and became a safetyvalve to release tensions from the camps.
But whereas supporters of unfettered emigration saw it as a safetyvalve for population pressure, others saw it a wasted investment by the state.
This strategy would seem to be a safetyvalve the video creates so as to prevent white viewers from feeling implicated by the song.
When the captain tied down the boiler safetyvalve, the engines generated enormous and sometimes boiler-exploding power.
Freedom to opt for or against application can therefore be seen as a 'safetyvalve' which protects general consensus in the network.
Why does our cosmic system not feature a built-in safetyvalve triggered by harm that is large-scale, intense, and mostly undeserved?
However, life's finiteness is an insufficiently compassionate safetyvalve.
But therein exactly lies the safetyvalve.
Perhaps one could view the shortness of life spans as such a safetyvalve, since no matter how horrible the suffering one incurs, it does come to a foreseeable end.
Another form of safetyvalve is substitution.
Since the 1960s and increased international aid the population has grown and, despite the safety valve of emigration, outgrown the natural resources hastening degradation of the agricultural base.
A democracy, by its very nature, needs the safetyvalve of humour and offence in order to operate properly.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It has acted as a safetyvalve and as a conciliator.
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That provides estate agents with the necessary safetyvalve.
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