1. 抗议；提出异议；反对
    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.

    e.g. Groups of women took to the streets to protest against the arrests...
           成群结队的妇女上街抗议逮捕行动。
    e.g. The students were protesting at overcrowding in the university hostels...
           学生们在抗议大学宿舍过于拥挤。

2. 抗议；反对
    A protest is the act of saying or showing publicly that you object to something.

    e.g. The opposition now seems too weak to stage any serious protests against the government...
           反对党现在似乎势力非常弱小，无法针对政府发起真正的抗议。
    e.g. The unions called a two-hour strike in protest at the railway authority's announcement.
           各工会号召罢工两小时，以对铁路当局所发通告表示抗议。

3. 申辩；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.

    e.g. When we tried to protest that Mo was beaten up they didn't believe us...
           我们试图申明莫遭到了毒打，他们却不相信我们。
    e.g. 'I never said any of that to her,' he protested...
           “我从来没有对她那么说过，”他申辩道。

4. 申明；声明；断言
    A protest that something is true is a strong declaration that it is true.

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    e.g. That was how she usually dealt with their protests that she was spoiling her grandchildren.
           当他们坚持说她是在溺爱孙儿，她通常会作出那样的回应。