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单词 self-defence
释义
self-defence
noun[U]
UK(USself-defense)
uk
/ˌself.dɪˈfens/us
/ˌself.dɪˈfens/
protectionof yourself, either byfightingordiscussion:
自卫
He used theguninself-defence.他出于自卫使用了枪。
Inself-defence, I have to say that I only did what youaskedme to do.为了自我辩护，我不得不说我只是做了你要我做的事。
theskilloffightingwithoutweaponstoprotectyourself:
自卫防身术
She goes to self-defenceclassesfor women.她参加了女子防身术训练班。
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(Definition ofself-defencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofself-defence

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These wars are often determined by numbers and simple techniques ofself-defenceor aggression rather than by superior skills, high technology or enhanced training.
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Their intercellular interactions are extremely important in the complex immunologicalself-defencesystem of humans and animals.
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Coalition systems2 are based on sets of arguments that defend each other against counter-arguments by banding together forself-defence.
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Militaries represented one of the cornerstones of national sovereignty based as they were on rights to nationalself-defence.
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The police defended their actions by simply noting that in most instances they were acting inself-defenceand were fired upon first.
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We have it as a sociocultural organisation and at the same time, an organisation that will prepare forself-defence.
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It asserted that it was iniquitous to inflict suffering on any sentient being, except whenself-defenceor absolute necessity could be justified.
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In our view, the consideration that the partner might die is probably not so easily triggered, because ofself-defencecoping mechanisms.
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The time had not yet come to reflect upon how the various communities had acted or not acted inself-defence.
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Inself-defenceagainst pressures from large organizations, they can put their trust in face-to-face relations with other people whom they know, and in fact this tends to occur.
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While throughout the century fencing masters continued to argue that the skill was essential forself-defence, fencing was increasingly promoted as worth practising for its own sake.
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Her at first sight insolent behaviour towards the young man is in fact a method ofself-defenceagainst male aggression, and as such another expression of her mental strength.
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Respondents no longer spoke of philosophies and absolutes or of individuals and masses, but instead ofself-defence, of self-preservation and of competing, diametrically opposed visions of human existence.
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By the mid-seventeenth century, so we are told, there was talk of an inalienable right toself-defence that was operative even when good government and human positive law prevailed.
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In order to convince themselves of the justness of their cause, they appealed to the traditional principle of actualself-defencewhich was recognized both by theologians and humanists.
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