preserve: [14] The -serve of preserve comes from Latin servāre ‘keep safe’ (no relation to servīre ‘serve’, but source also of English conserve, observe, and reserve). Combination with prae- ‘before’ produced medieval Latin praeservāre ‘guard beforehand, take steps to ward off possible harm’, which reached English via Old French preserver. => conserve, observe, reserve
preserve (v.)
late 14c., "keep safe," from Anglo-French preservare, Old French preserver, from Medieval Latin preservare "keep, preserve," from Late Latin praeservare "guard beforehand," from Latin prae "before" (see pre-) + servare "to keep safe" (see observe). As a treatment of fruit, etc., 1570s; of organic bodies from 1610s. Related: Preserved; preserving.
preserve (n.)
"fruit preserved with sugar," c. 1600, from preserve (v.). Earlier it meant "a preservative" (1550s). Sense of "protected place for animals or plants" (a sense more properly belonging to conserve) is from 1807.
例文
1. After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting presrve .
ノーマンが征服した後、この森は王立狩猟区になった。
2.The park was created to presrve some of the forests upstate.
この公園は、州最北部地域の森林を守るために作られています。
3.Bad driving is not just the presrve of boy racers.
不良運転は、暴走小僧たちだけがすることではありません。
4.The conduct of foreign policy is largely the presrve of the president.
外交政策は主に大統領が担当している。
5.Their main job is to presrve health rather than treat illness.