Conserve

(noun.) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar.

(verb.) preserve with sugar; 'Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard'.

(verb.) use cautiously and frugally; 'I try to economize my spare time'; 'conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit'.

(verb.) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; 'We preserve these archeological findings'; 'The old lady could not keep up the building'; 'children must be taught to conserve our national heritage'; 'The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts'.

(verb.) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change; 'Energy is conserved in this process'.

手打:西格蒙德

• His passion for Eustacia had been a sort of conserve of his whole life, and he had nothing more of that supreme quality left to bestow. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• While the Greeks made knowledge more than learning, modern science makes conserved knowledge only a means to learning, to discovery. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We shall feel free to choose among alternatives--to take this much of socialism, insert so much syndicalism, leave standing what of capitalism seems worth conserving. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

校对:莎娜