喜樂美語
  1. 1vB2/ɪnˈʃʊr/ · /ɪnˈʃɔː/確保

    To make certain that something happens or that something is true.

    To make certain確保that something happens某件事會發生or that something is true或某件事是真的

    示範例句 · Example

    Please ensure that all the lights are off before you leave the classroom.

    逐字請確保所有的燈在你離開教室前都關掉。

    「ensure」是英文裡「確保某件事一定會發生」的動詞，比 make sure 更正式，常用在書面或正式場合。後面常接 that 子句（ensure that everyone is safe）或名詞（ensure the safety of...）。它強調「採取行動讓結果一定成立」，不是只是希望而已。小心別跟 insure（投保保險）搞混。

    常見搭配

    • ensure that

      確保（某事發生）

      to make certain that something happens

      Check twice to ensure that the door is locked.

    • ensure the safety of

      確保…的安全

      to make someone or something safe

      These rules ensure the safety of all swimmers.

    • ensure success

      確保成功

      to make success certain

      Hard work alone does not always ensure success.

    意思相近

    make sureguaranteemake certainsecure

core核心畫面

You can picture yourself doing whatever it takes so a result is locked in — not just hoping it happens, but making it sure. To ensure something is to take action that guarantees it will be true or will happen.

可以想成你動手把某個結果「鎖死」——不是光在那邊期待它發生,而是去做點什麼,讓它一定成真。ensure 的畫面比較像這種「我來確保它穩當」的感覺。

過去式 ensured過去分詞 ensured-ing ensuring三單 ensures

意思相近

make sureguaranteemake certainsecure

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

ensureverb/ɪnˈʃɔː(ɹ)/

  • 1

    To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

    • I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.
    • British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.

    • Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be

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