shelter是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 (a building designed to give) protection from bad weather, danger, or attack -- 掩蔽（处）；遮蔽（处）

  • an air-raid shelter 防空洞

  • They opened a shelter to provide temporary housing for the city's homeless. 他们开设了一个收容所，为该市的无家可归者提供临时的住宿。

  • The trees gave/provided some shelter from the rain. 这些树遮了一些雨。

  • We took shelter for the night in an abandoned house. 我们在一所废弃的房子里避了一夜。

• 1 to protect yourself, or another person or thing, from bad weather, danger, or attack -- 躲避；保护；遮蔽

  • We were caught in a thunderstorm, without anywhere to shelter. 我们遇上了雷暴雨，没有避雨的地方。

  • A group of us were sheltering from the rain under the trees. 我们一群人在树下避雨。

  • Local people risked their own lives to shelter resistance fighters from the army. 当地的人们冒着生命危险，为抵抗组织的战士提供避难所，使其免遭军队逮捕。

• 2 If you shelter income, you legally avoid paying taxes on it. -- 合法避税

  • Their accountant suggested some novel ways of sheltering their retirement income. 他们的会计师提出了一些新方法，可帮他们合法规避退休收入税。