| 词汇 | sheltering |
| 释义 | sheltering present participle ofshelter shelter verb uk /ˈʃel.tər/ us /ˈʃel.t̬ɚ/ shelterverb (PROTECT)C2[ I or T ] to protect yourself, or another person or thing, from bad weather, danger, or attack: 躲避；保护；遮蔽 We were caught in a thunderstorm, without anywhere to shelter.我们遇上了雷暴雨，没有避雨的地方。 shelter fromA group of us were sheltering from the rain under the trees.我们一群人在树下避雨。 to accommodate someone accommodateThere aren’t enough rooms to accommodate all the students. give accommodation toThe university gives free accommodation to nursing students. provide accommodation toWe only provide accommodation to first-year students. lodgeStudents will be lodged with host families. houseThe base can house up to 2,000 soldiers. put someone upI can put you up for a couple of nights. [ T ] to give someone a secret hiding place so that they will not be caught by the army, police, etc.: 为…提供避难的地方 shelter someone from somethingLocal people risked their own lives to shelter resistance fighters from the army.当地的人们冒着生命危险，为抵抗组织的战士提供避难所，使其免遭军队逮捕。 shelter in place US to remain in the building that you are in during an emergency such as an extreme weather event or a shooting: In most chemical emergencies people are instructed to shelter in place, closing windows and turning off air conditioners to keep out toxic fumes. US to stay at home and only leave when you have to, for example to buy food, especially during an epidemic(= the appearance of a disease in a large number of people at the same time): Millions of Californians were told to shelter in place to stop the spread of coronavirus. Defending and protecting air defence anti-bug anti-mosquito baby bandobast cocoon duck duck and coveridiom embedded featherbedding fight back hedge insulate poisonous security camera security light self-protective self-protectiveness shelter smother shelterverb (AVOID TAX)[ T ]US If you shelter income, you legally avoid paying taxes on it: 合法避税 Their accountant suggested some novel ways of sheltering their retirement income.他们的会计师提出了一些新方法，可帮他们合法规避退休收入税。 Taxation amortizable anti-dumping anti-progressive anti-tax at sourcephrase filer financial year fiscal drag fiscal year flat tax rebate regressive regressively road tax sales tax taxed taxpayer the taxman tithe top rate Examples of shelteringsheltering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Doing so may have removed a real increase in such events as participants aged into more responsible roles and less familial sheltering from stress. The policy simulations underline the need for sheltering capital formation in the economy as a whole when stimulating higher productivity in the agricultural sectors. Indeed, convents and communities specifically aimed at sheltering women whose honour was ' in danger ' fulfilled a partially similar function, that of the refuge. At their foot is found a natural spring splashing from the rockface; its sacred role is quietly stated by a sheltering canopy. The small-scale husbandry and careful sheltering of work-animals seems logical in a period in which rural production for direct local consumption predominates. In the future, they might be of benefit in sheltering endogenous genes from retrovirus-induced transcription. Given the centrality of children to a successful marriage and to women's status, elders trivialized the sheltering of runaway, childless wives. It was a realm outside the control of the state, a place where agitators could withdraw into sheltering obscurity. The party has acted as little more than an umbrella sheltering largely independent factions. They find little support for the hypothesis that sheltering dividend payments from taxation increases employer stock holdings. At the other extreme, simple or nuclear families, consisting of husband, wife and their (never-married) children were also infrequent, sheltering less than 15 per cent of the population. According to the speaker, the dead are not terribly inclined to pass through the grave's "sheltering door" again and their reluctance may suggest a condition of relative ease. Treasured and loving moments surface amid the anguish of forsaking and sheltering cherished others while dispelling-embracing mystery. We have, at present, no indication whether this will occur before, or after, the sheltering effect has become dominant nor of the interplay between these two mechanisms. Therefore, where there's snow that's sheltering the ice, with the turbulence doing the action from underneath, the water moving in circles and wears out the ice underneath that snowbank. 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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