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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   save

   • IPA[sāv]

   美式

   • v.
     keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger；prevent (someone) from dying
   • n.
     an instance of a relief pitcher saving a game.；(in soccer and hockey) an act of preventing an opponent's scoring

   • verb: save, 3rd person present: saves, gerund or present participle: saving, past tense: saved, past participle: saved

   • noun: save, plural noun: saves

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger she saved a boy from drowning 同義詞 rescue, come to someone's rescue, save someone's life, come to someone's aid, set free, ... 更多free, liberate, deliver, extricate, snatch, bail out, bring off, informalsave someone's bacon, save someone's neck, save someone's skin, preserve, keep safe, keep, protect, safeguard, guard, conserve, salvage, retrieve, reclaim, rescue反義詞 endanger
   • ▪ prevent (someone) from dying the doctors did everything they could to save him
   • ▪ (in Christian use) preserve (a person's soul) from damnation church ladies approach me trying to save my soul
   • ▪ keep (someone) in health (used in exclamations and formulaic expressions) God save the Queen
   • 2. keep and store up (something, especially money) for future use she had never been able to save much from her salary you can save up for retirement in a number of ways 同義詞 put aside, set aside, lay aside, put by, put to one side, ... 更多lay by, keep, retain, reserve, keep in reserve, conserve, stockpile, store, hoard, save for a rainy day, keep for future use, put in a safe place, collect, amass, set by, informalsalt away, squirrel away, stash away, hang onto反義詞 waste, fritter away, use up
   • ▪ preserve (something) by not expending or using it save your strength till later
   • ▪ North American informal used to tell someone to stop talking save it, Joey—I'm in big trouble now
   • 3. keep (data) by moving a copy to a storage location, especially from memory save it to a new file
   • 4. avoid the need to use up or spend (money, time, or other resources) save $20 on a new camcorder an efficient dishwasher would save them one year and three months at the sink 同義詞 economize, be (more) economical, make economies, scrimp, scrimp and scrape, ... 更多be thrifty, be frugal, tighten one's belt, cut back, make cutbacks, budget, retrench, husband one's resources, cut costs, cut expenditure, draw in one's horns, watch one's pennies, pinch pennies, dialectrake and scrape反義詞 spend, be extravagant
   • ▪ avoid, lessen, or guard against this approach saves wear and tear on the books the statement was made to save the government some embarrassment 同義詞 prevent, obviate, forestall, spare, stop, ... 更多avoid, avert, make unnecessary, rule out反義詞 cause
   • 5. prevent an opponent from scoring (a goal or point) in a game or from winning (the game) the powerful German saved three match points
   • ▪ (of a goalkeeper in soccer and hockey) stop (a shot) from entering the goal.
   • ▪ (of a relief pitcher in certain game situations) finish (a game) while preserving a winning position gained by another pitcher.

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. an instance of a relief pitcher saving a game.
   • ▪ (in soccer and hockey) an act of preventing an opponent's scoring the keeper made a great save
   • ▪ another term for sacrifice
   • 2. an act of saving data to a storage location, usually the hard drive the recovery feature enables you to retrieve most of the edits you made since the last save

   片語

   • save the day
   • save someone's life
   • save someone's skin
   • save someone the trouble