It was the first time that a government had approved a law to preserve and protect land because of its great beauty.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

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You, the intelligentsia of the next generation, will be those that preserve this great treasure of Western culture and it is a great treasure of Western culture.

你们,未来一代的知识分子们,会成为这一西方文化中,灿烂瑰宝的保护者,它确实是西方文化中的灿烂瑰宝

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Both sides in this debate acknowledge the threat of terrorism, but are divided over how to prevent it and how to preserve the country's democratic values.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

We are all endowed, he says, with a kind of natural right to life and the desire to preserve oneself is not just a biological fact, although it is also that, it is for him a moral right, it is a moral entitlement, every being has a fundamental right to its own life.

他说，我们具有，一种对生活的自然权利,和保护自己的欲望,这不只是一种生理现象，虽然是一种生理现象，对他来说这更是一种道德权利，是一种道德资格，每个人最自己的生活都有这种根本权利。

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It allows us to preserve the work of art.

记谱法让我们能得以保护艺术成果

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