Mary gave a
defensive answer.
玛丽为自己答辩。
They took a
defensive attitude in the negotiation.
他们在谈判时取守势。
The team adopted a
defensive strategy in the second half of the game to protect their lead.
下半场球队采取了防守策略以保住领先优势。
It's important to have a strong
defensive line in football to prevent the opponent from scoring.
在足球中，拥有强大的防守线对于阻止对手得分至关重要。
She took a
defensive stance when her opinions were challenged during the debate.
在辩论中她的观点受到挑战时，她采取了防御的姿态。
The company released a
defensive statement denying all allegations of wrongdoing.
公司发布了一份辩护性声明，否认所有不当行为的指控。
Learning self-defense techniques can help people feel more confident and less
defensive in potentially dangerous situations.
学习自卫技巧可以帮助人们在潜在的危险情况下感到更加自信，减少防御性。
The lawyer's questions were met with
defensive answers from the witness on the stand.
律师的问题遭到了证人台上防御性的回答。
In chess, the objective of the French Defense is to create a solid
defensive structure before launching a counterattack.
在国际象棋中，法兰西防御的目标是在发起反击前建立坚固的防御结构。
The new security system is designed to be both preventive and
defensive against cyber attacks.
新的安全系统旨在既预防又防御网络攻击。
His
defensive driving course taught him how to anticipate and avoid potential accidents on the road.
他的防御性驾驶课程教会他如何预测并避免道路上的潜在事故。
The coach emphasized the importance of maintaining a balanced offensive and
defensive playstyle throughout the season.
教练强调了在整个赛季中保持进攻和防守风格平衡的重要性。
Taking place in the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai, Ding Bin, director of publicity center from the traffic police general brigade of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, said civilized manners and law-abiding behaviors can build a defensive line for road safety, and safer travel back home relates to the happiness of every individual and family.
上海市公安局交通警察总队宣传中心主任丁斌在上海浦东艺术博物馆举行的活动中说，文明的举止和守法的行为可以筑起道路安全的防线，更安全的回家之旅关系到每个人和家庭的幸福。
"It's essentially a defensive control, meaning the government would only step in when major national security issues and corporates' lawful rights are at stake.
"The editorial warned foreign companies not to undermine China's sovereignty, and China will take some "defensive tools" to deal with companies that violate its bottom line.
"The company could be a defensive play if gold prices decline compared with other pure gold producers.
"It seems that the large market players are holding a defensive attitude instead of an open mindset regarding the changed landscape.
In addition, Forrester forecast that as uncertainties are mounting, the management level of enterprises are taking a more defensive attitude when making investment decisions.
To tackle the uncertainty of the market, many enterprises tend to adopt a defensive business strategy.
Market volatility may remain elevated in the coming three to six months as COVID-19 uncertainties continue to weigh on economic activity and market performance, Hu said, adding that UBS favors defensive sectors such as consumer staples to weather the short-term fluctuations.
Therefore, holding a defensive line against imported cold-chain foods has become crucial to pandemic prevention and control.
To safeguard the public, the defensive line must be firmly built and strictly upheld," said a spokesman from the Shenzhen Municipal Administration for Market Regulation.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic "has compounded challenges for brands", companies need to focus on opportunities in China, "and go from defensive to offensive," said Langer.
This environment favors strong, defensive State-owned developers that have abundant liquidity, high operating efficiency, low leverage, low financing cost, alternative land resources, and land banks that are focused on higher-tier cities.
Singapore, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh City, Sydney and Melbourne are ranked as the top five markets for investment prospects, reflecting investor preference for regional markets that are large, liquid and defensive.
If you are telling people to change their behaviors, they get very defensive.
When the global economy shows signs of contraction or declining, fine wines can play a defensive role in hedging against market risks to a certain extent.
Nio created the smartphone as a defensive measure from the competition posed by Apple's vast user base, according to Li.
Ant Group is training its proprietary AI technologies to simulate hacker invasions in a bid to enhance risk-detection capabilities and thus boost its defensive resilience.
Tian said that the upgraded platform is able to offer offensive and defensive capabilities for algorithms and embeds functions like backdoor vulnerability detection.
Making investment portfolios more defensive will be especially important against this backdrop, he added.
The Future Fund, Australia's sovereign wealth fund, said late last year that it will add gold to its portfolio to combat inflation and increase its defensive play.
Further defensive actions that may be taken soon include cutting foreign exchange deposit RRRs to boost foreign exchange liquidity and imposing a reserve requirement for foreign exchange derivative sales, said Louise Loo, lead economist at Oxford Economics.
Other defensive investments, such as gold, can also be considered, given the possible uncertainties on the global front.
Therefore, the US stock market may show higher volatility in the following days and investors should be prepared for that by shifting to value stocks, making defensive strategies or even looking for alternative investment opportunities, suggested UBS experts.
As a result, investors must adopt a more defensive strategy, he said.
The robust domestic consumption, which has become a major economic driver, will provide more defensive power during the time of difficulty, he said.
"We remain bullish on leading companies and recommend investors overweigh consumer sectors with relatively stable earnings (food and beverages, home appliances, duty-free operators and airports) and make their portfolios more defensive to deal with various potential uncertainties," UBS analysts said in a research note.
Against this backdrop, Li Shaojun, a strategist at Guotai Junan Securities, suggested investors look at undervalued companies in the banking, property, gold, public facilities, and agriculture sectors, which will be defensive in the long term.
Ten of the 11 major S&P sectors were lower, with only defensive utilities posting slight gains.
The telecoms sector was the best-performing, up 1.6 percent as investors' search for safer assets drove them into sectors considered "defensive" for their high dividend payouts.
Gao said over the past three months, defensive sectors such as consumer staples and pharmaceuticals have seen remarkable re-rating.
"Investors could purchase defensive stocks such as pharmaceuticals and consumer companies to mitigate the risks.
According to a research note from Hua Chuang Securities, consumption-related companies are more "defensive" because they are more able to withstand cyclical pressures than many other fragile sectors that are sensitive to external factors.
More than 68 percent of Chinese respondents' portfolio are allocated in traditional defensive assets, including 23.8 percent in cash, 27.5 percent in fixed-income assets, 10.7 percent in real estate, and 6.4 percent in gold or precious metals.
Beijing adheres to settling disputes through dialogue and negotiation, pursues a defensive national defense policy, and its development "strengthens the world's forces for peace", he added.