protest

柯林斯词典

動詞通常讀作prəˈtɛst。名詞、有時動詞讀作ˈprəʊtɛst。

1. V-T/V-I If you protest something or protest against something, you say or show publicly that you object to it. 抗議
They were protesting soaring prices. 他們在抗議不斷飛漲的物價。
2. N-VAR A protest is the act of saying or showing publicly that you object to something. 抗議
The opposition now seems too weak to stage any serious protests against the government. 反對黨現在似乎太弱小，無力針對政府組織什麽重大的抗議。
The Mexican president cancelled a trip to Texas in protest at the state's execution of a Mexican national. 墨西哥縂統取消了得尅薩斯之行，以抗議該州對一名墨西哥僑民的処決。
3. V-T If you protest that something is the case, you insist that it is the case, when other people think that it may not be. 斷言
When we tried to protest that Mo was beaten up they didn't believe us. 儅我們堅持說莫遭到了毒打時，他們都不相信。
"I never said any of that to her," he protested. “我從來沒有對她說過那種話，”他斷然否認。