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Trad. 防夾
- antipinch (e.g. preventing catching fingers in automatic car windows)
Trad. 防長
- abbr. for 國防部長|国防部长[guo2 fang2 bu4 zhang3], Minister of Defense
Trad. 防風
- to protect from wind
- fangfeng (Saposhnikovia divaricata), its root used in TCM
Trad. 預防
- to prevent
- to take precautions against
- to protect
- to guard against
- precautionary
- prophylactic
Trad. 關防
- security measures (esp. border security)
- official seal (esp. military seal during Qing and Ming times)
- to attack and defend (usu. in reference to opposing sides, but can be one party playing both roles)
- (video games) to break through an opponent's defenses
- (by extension) (slang) to get to sb
- to make sb feel upset or moved
- to guard against
- to be vigilant
- watch you don't (slip)
- Taiwan pr. [ti2 fang2]
- air raid shelter; bomb shelter
- (fig.) place that protects bad people; hideout
- unexpectedly
- suddenly
- at unawares
- off guard
- against expectations
Trad. 預防針
- immunization injection
- fig. forewarning
- heads-up
- preventive measure
Trad. 防城區
- Fangcheng, a district of Fangchenggang City 防城港市[Fang2 cheng2 gang3 Shi4], Guangxi
- Fangchenggang, prefecture-level city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区[Guang3 xi1 Zhuang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]
- to prevent troubles before the event (idiom)
- to forestall
- to nip sth in the bud
- to prevent a disaster before the event (idiom); to nip sth in the bud
Trad. 防暑降溫
- to prevent heatstroke and reduce temperature
Trad. 拒腐防變
- to fight corruption and forestall moral degeneration
Trad. 養兒防老
- (of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age
Trad. 正當防衛
- reasonable self-defense
- legitimate defense
Trad. 防火長城
- Great Firewall of China (system for restricting access to foreign websites)
Trad. 防禦工事
- fortification
- defensive structure
Trad. 防空避難
- (Tw) evacuation to an air-raid shelter
Trad. 防衛大臣
- minister of defense (esp. in Japan)
Trad. 防衛過當
- excessive self-defense (self-defense with excessive force)
Trad. 防風固沙
- sand break (in desert environment)
Trad. 以防萬一
- to guard against the unexpected (idiom); just in case
- prepared for any eventualities
Trad. 疏於防範
- to neglect to take precautions
- relaxed vigilance
- Kinderdijk, village in the Netherlands with a large network of windmills attracting many tourists
Trad. 預防措施
- protective step
- protective measure
Trad. 劃圓防守
- to counter (a stroke in fencing)
Trad. 國防部長
- Defense secretary
- Defense Minister
Trad. 積穀防饑
- storing grain against a famine
- to lay sth by for a rainy day
- also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥
Trad. 布防迎戰
- to prepare to meet the enemy head-on
Trad. 防不勝防
- (idiom) virtually impossible to prevent
Trad. 齊格菲防線
- Siegfried Line, line of German military defenses during WWI and WWII
Trad. 防患於未然
- see 防患未然[fang2 huan4 wei4 ran2]
Trad. 防空避難所
- (Tw) air-raid shelter
Trad. 國防現代化
- modernization of national defense, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
- high-to-medium-altitude air defense (HIMAD)
Trad. 三北防護林
- Green Wall of China, a massive afforestation program on the eastern margin of the Gobi Desert aimed at stopping the desert's expansion, started in 1978 and planned to be completed by 2050
Trad. 戰略防御倡議
- strategic defense initiative (SDI)
Trad. 簡氏防務週刊
- Jane's defense weekly
Trad. 國防語言學院
- US Defense Language Institute (founded 1941)
Trad. 防城各族自治縣
- Fangcheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County in Guangxi (temporary name during 1950s for Fangcheng district 防城區|防城区[Fang2 cheng2 qu1] of Fangchenggang city)
Trad. 病蟲害綠色防控
- green pest prevention and control; environmentally friendly methods of pest control and prevention
Trad. 明槍好躲，暗箭難防
- lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies
Trad. 明槍易躲，暗箭難防
- lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies
Trad. 中國國防科技信息中心
- China Defense Science and Technology Information Center (CDSTIC)