名词

1. 平安;安全
Safety is the state of being safe from harm or danger.

2. 安全场所;安全的地方
If you reach safety, you reach a place where you are safe from danger.

3. 安全程度;安全性;无害;无危险
If you are concerned about the safety of something, you are concerned that it might be harmful or dangerous.

4. (某人的)安全
If you are concerned for someone's safety, you are concerned that they might be in danger.

5. (特征、措施)保障安全的
Safety features or measures are intended to make something less dangerous.

6. 人多保险;人多势众
If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.

1. (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely

Synonym: base hit

2. a score in American football
a player is tackled behind his own goal line

3. contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse

Synonym: condomrubbersafeprophylactic

4. a device designed to prevent injury or accidents

Synonym: guardsafety device

5. a safe place

e.g. He ran to safety

Synonym: refuge

6. the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions

e.g. insure the safety of the children
the reciprocal of safety is risk