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VERB
抗議；提出異議；反對
If you protest against something or about something, you say or show publicly that you object to it. In American English, you usually say that you protest it.
例句
Groups of women took to the streets to protest against the arrests...
成群結隊的婦女上街抗議逮捕行動。
The students were protesting at overcrowding in the university hostels...
學生們在抗議大學宿舍過于擁擠。
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N-VAR
抗議；反對
A protest is the act of saying or showing publicly that you object to something.
例句
The opposition now seems too weak to stage any serious protests against the government...
反對黨現在似乎勢力非常弱小，無法針對政府發起真正的抗議。
The unions called a two-hour strike in protest at the railway authority's announcement.
各工會號召罷工兩小時，以對鐵路當局所發通告表示抗議。
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VERB
申辯；申明
If you protest that something is the case, you insist that it is the case, when other people think that it may not be.
例句
When we tried to protest that Mo was beaten up they didn't believe us...
我們試圖申明莫遭到了毒打，他們卻不相信我們。
'I never said any of that to her,' he protested...
“我從來沒有對她那么說過，”他申辯道。
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N-COUNT
申明；聲明；斷言
A protest that something is true is a strong declaration that it is true.
例句
That was how she usually dealt with their protests that she was spoiling her grandchildren.
當他們堅持說她是在溺愛孫兒，她通常會作出那樣的回應。