1. protect
I protected you
He has in his possession films that were never distributed to cinemas to protect them against piracy.
This means that if you try to protect yourself too much, you will only make bigger mistakes.
Imogen of the Internet is torn between filling out the music sections of all her online profiles and ensuring that none of her friends will have ever heard of her favorite bands in order to protect their precious obscurity.
Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people.
The most instinctive act of nearly every creature is to protect its young, and with humans, this response persists for a lifetime.
The dignity of man is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority.
That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.
In ancient Rome, the bodyguards who surrounded the wealthy and powerful to protect them when they walked the streets, were called satellites.
Wanting to protect me from myself is about as ingenious as saving a fish from drowning.
Didn't your mother teach you anything? When you meet with scary people always protect your wallet and your arsehole!
I always have a tennis racquet, so if a bat flies near me, I can protect myself.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
2. guard
Not knowing what to expect, Tom was caught off guard.
He remained there for many months under close guard.
He went into the bank in the disguise of a guard.
Guard against accidents.
If you carelessly ask, "got a boyfriend?" she'll be put on her guard and say, "why do you ask?"
When one of my coworkers starts racking up good sales figures I can't let down my guard.
This is a plan that takes into account your stature and your ability to guard. By all means do it for me.
Gold golems are guardians used to guard treasure.
When two armies oppose one another, those who can fight should fight, those who can't fight should guard, those who can't guard should flee, those who can't flee should surrender, and those who can't surrender should die.
However, when I finally reached the castle I was thrown into this prison by the commander of the imperial guard.
Speaking with reporters in Montreal, Canada, Walesa says the change of leadership in East Germany came about because the old guard leaders missed the train of history.
-We can feel safe and secure, here's a guard.
n, v - guard
Well you're always putting on a show, and you're always on guard.
3. protection
Despite the government's protection, he was the victim of an assassination attempt which killed him.
witness protection
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Which is more important, economic development or environmental protection?
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me. (Afterwards is OK; just use protection.) The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
The boss is hard to get along with. But if I try to talk to him about problems I have at work he might have a little heart. Even a hunter can't kill a bird who flies to him for protection.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Just because it's a "safe day" I'm not going to make out like monkeys without protection. Isn't it the duty of loving sex to take proper care of contraception?
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Angielskie słowo "bảo vệ" (protection) występuje w zestawach:
bài học của tôi4. defend
Defend her from danger.
I never imagined that my skills as a lawyer would be used to defend Tom.
A good lawyer would leave no stone unturned in his efforts to defend his client.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
To defend ourselves, we had to tell a lie.
As a public official you have sworn an oath to uphold and defend the constitution.
Apart from his parents, nobody would defend the suspect.
It is more difficult to defend oneself than to defend someone else. Those who doubt it may look at lawyers.
If you try to defend the seniority-based corporate escalator these days all you'll get is flak from younger employees.
I always regard him as a great ally in the fight to defend fundamental rights.
defend one's thesis
It probably will. But it's difficult to find anyone who doesn't defend a child's right to be healthy.
How can you defend someone you know is guilty?
And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.