security

英 [s?'kj??r?t?] 美[s?'kj?r?ti]

反義詞

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復數:?securities;

security 保安，安保措施，債券

secure,安全的，可靠的，-ity,名詞后綴。引申詞義保安，安保措施，債券等。

security (n.): mid-15c., "condition of being secure," from Latin securitas, from securus "free from care" (see secure). Replacing sikerte (early 15c.), from an earlier borrowing from Latin; earlier in the sense "security" was sikerhede (early 13c.); sikernesse (c. 1200).

Meaning "something which secures" is from 1580s; "safety of a state, person, etc." is from 1941. Legal sense of "property in bonds" is from mid-15c.; that of "document held by a creditor" is from 1680s. Phrase security blanket in figurative sense is attested from 1966, in reference to the crib blanket carried by the character Linus in the "Peanuts" comic strip (1956).

1. It's an open secret that the security service bugged telephones.: 安全部門竊聽電話是人人皆知的秘密。

2. Today's Security Council resolution will be a significant success for American diplomacy.: 今天的安理會決議對于美國外交而言是一次重大的成功。

3. Wherever they went they were closely followed by security men.: 不管上哪兒，保安人員都緊跟在他們身后。

4. The exact locations are being kept secret for reasons of security.: 確切地點因為安全原因要保密。

5. The security zone was set up to prevent guerrilla infiltrations.: 設立了安全區以防止游擊隊員的滲入。