defensive

defensive怎么读

英式音标：[dɪˈfensɪv]

美式音标：[dɪˈfɛnsɪv]

defensive基本解释

adj. 自卫的；防御用的

n. 防御；守势

defensive的意思释义

adj.

防御用的，防守的；辩护的；自卫的；

n.

守势；辩护；

英英释义

n.an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive\')

同义词：defensive attitude

adj.

intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack

\"defensive weapons\"; \"a defensive stance\"

attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

同义词：justificativejustificatory

serving as or appropriate for defending or protecting

\"defensive fortifications\"; \"defensive dikes to protect against floods\"

defensive用法及例句

词组短语

on the defensive处于防御状态

defensive line[橄榄球]防线

defensive end防守端锋；防守边锋

defensive strategy防卫策略；防守战略

defensive medicine防御式医疗

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

They teamed together into a defensive alliance.

他们联合起来组成一个防卫同盟。

Our troops took up defensive positions on high ground overlooking the river.

我部队在临河高地上占据了防御阵地。

When asked to explain her behavior, she gave a very defensive answer.

当问她为什么要这样做时，她极力为自己辩护。

She\'s very defensive about her part in the affair.

她极力掩盖她在此事中充当的角色。

用作名词(n.)

They put entirely on the defensive.

他们被迫完全处于守势。

例句参考

Defensive Marketing Strategy by Customer Complaint Management: A Theoretical Analysis

Mouse defensive behaviors: pharmacological and behavioral assays for anxiety and panic

Herbivory and Defensive Characteristics of Tree Species in a Lowland Tropical Forest

Neural organization of the defensive behavior system responsible for fear

Fungal Endophytes of Grasses: A Defensive Mutualism between Plants and Fungi

Emotion and motivation I: defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing.

Orienting in a defensive world: Mammalian modifications of our evolutionary heritage. A Polyvagal Theory

A two-dimensional neuropsychology of defense: fear/anxiety and defensive distance.

The systemin signaling pathway: differential activation of plant defensive genes.

defensive词源

defensive

c. 1400 (adj. and noun), from French défensif (14c.), from Medieval Latin defensivus, from defens-, past participle stem of Latin defendere (see defend). Of persons, \"alert to reject criticism,\" from 1919. Related: Defensively; defensiveness.

defensive相关例句

1.So Croesus made a defensive alliance both with the Lacedemonians and Egyptians.

因此，克雷兹既同拉克代蒙人又同埃及人结成了防守同盟。

2.He was on the defensive all the time I was speaking to him.

我说他时，他总是辩解。

3.He became noticeably defensive.

他十分谨慎地为自己辩护。

4.put somebody on the defensive

使某人处于防御地位

5.It put the enthusiasts for progressive methods on the defensive.

它迫使热情支持进步教学法的人处于守势。

6.Time is found to have built its own defensive lines, camouflaged vulnerable points.

时光的流逝筑起了层层防线，把薄弱环节伪装起来。

7.I left so that the numbness of my defensive living might thaw out.

我的出走，是要让我那但求温饱的僵冻心理得以冰释。

8.A Security Council meeting was likely to generate rhetoric that put us on the defensive.

安理会如果开会，很可能会引出使我们处于守势的讲话。

9.Animal agriculture was on the defensive.

畜牧业处于逆境。

10.a defensive position

防御阵地