shel.ter

shelter的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈʃeltə]
KK音标发音： [ˈʃɛltɚ]

shelter的词性：
n.（名词）

1. Something that provides cover or protection, as from the weather.
遮盖物：提供遮盖或保护的东西，如对付天气

2. A refuge; a haven.
避难所；安全场所

3. An establishment that provides temporary housing for homeless people.
收容所：为无家可归的人提供暂时栖息场所的机构

4. The state of being covered or protected.
掩蔽，保护：被包覆或保护的状态

shelter的词性：
v.（动词）

shelter的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）

5. To provide cover or protection for.
隐蔽：为…提供外壳或保护

6. To invest (income) to protect it from taxation.
投资（以逃税）：将（收入）投资以避免上税

shelter的词性：
v.intr.（不及物动词）

7. To take cover; find refuge.
避难：隐匿；找到避难所

shelter的词源：

8. Perhaps from Middle English sheltron [tight battle formation]
可能源自 中古英语 sheltron [紧密的战斗编队]

9. from Old English scildtruma
源自 古英语 scildtruma

10. scield [shield] * see shield
scield [保护物] *参见 shield

11. truma [troop] * see deru-
truma [军队] *参见 deru-

shelter的词性：
n.（名词）

shelter的词性：
adj.（形容词）

shelter， cover， retreat， refuge， asylum， sanctuary

12. These nouns refer to places affording protection, as from danger, or to the state of being protected.
这些名词都指提供保护的场所，如防止危险或被保护的状态。

13. Shelter usually implies a covered or enclosed area that protects temporarily, as from injury or attack:
Shelter 通常指提供暂时的保护、免受伤害或攻击而被覆盖或包围的区域：

A cold frame provides shelter for the seedlings.
为幼苗提供保护冷床。

“And the dead tree gives no shelter” (T.S. Eliot).
“死树不能提供保护” (T·S·爱略特）。

14. Cover suggests something, as bushes, that conceals:
Cover 暗指提供庇护的某物，如灌木：

The army mounted the invasion under cover of darkness.
军队在夜色的掩护下发动攻击。

15. Retreat applies chiefly to a secluded place to which one retires for meditation, peace, or privacy:
Retreat 主要用于某人为沉思、平静和独处退居的隐居场所：

Their cabin in the woods served as a retreat from the pressures of business.
林中的小木屋是他们躲避生意压力的隐居处。

16. Refuge suggests a place of escape from pursuit or from difficulties that beset one:
Refuge 暗指逃离追踪或摆脱重重困难的场所：

“vagrants and criminals, who make this wild country a refuge from justice” (Sir Walter Scott).
“流浪汉和罪犯把这个野郊的乡村作为躲避审判的避难所” （瑟尔瓦尔特·斯科特）。

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life” (George Bernard Shaw).
“住旅馆的最大优点是它成为家庭生活的避难所” （乔治·伯纳德·萧）。

17. Asylum adds to
Asylum

18. refuge the idea of legal protection against a pursuer or of immunity from arrest:
refuge 加上了对被追逐者提供合法保护以躲避追逐者或不被逮捕的意思：

“O! receive the fugitive and prepare in time an asylum for mankind” (Thomas Paine).
“哦！接纳逃犯并及时为人类准备庇护所” （托马斯·佩恩）。

19. Sanctuary denotes a sacred or inviolable place of refuge:
Sanctuary 指神圣的或不可侵犯的避难场所：

Some of the political refugees found sanctuary in a monastery.
一些政治避难者在修道院中找到了避难所