refuge

1. N-UNCOUNT If you take refuge somewhere, you try to protect yourself from physical harm by going there. 避難

They took refuge in a bomb shelter. 他們在一個防空洞里避難。

2. N-COUNT A refuge is a place where you go for safety and protection, for example from violence or from bad weather. 避難所; 收容所

Eventually Suzanne fled to a refuge for battered women. 最后蘇珊娜逃到了一家受虐婦女收容所。

3. N-UNCOUNT If you take refuge in a particular way of behaving or thinking, you try to protect yourself from unhappiness or unpleasantness by behaving or thinking in that way. 庇護

All too often, they get bored and seek refuge in drink and drugs. 多數(shù)時間，他們感覺厭倦便借酒和毒品得以逃避。