Prevent

(verb.) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; 'We must prevent the cancer from spreading'; 'His snoring kept me from falling asleep'; 'Keep the child from eating the marbles'.

(verb.) keep from happening or arising; make impossible; 'My sense of tact forbids an honest answer'; 'Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project'.

凯瑟琳编辑

• He shall not be in love with me, if I can prevent it. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• If it were even to take pains to prevent their importation, it would not be able to effectuate it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But nothing that could be done would prevent the rubber from getting soft in summer and hard and brittle in the winter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The guess came so near the truth, I could not prevent a suddenly-rising warmth in my face from revealing as much. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Let us have no more troubles and heart-burnings that any sacrifice of mine can prevent. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This is the order of nature, to prevent animals being infected by their own perspiration. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I am afraid Thomas, with such lines of road as he has to protect, could not prevent Hood from going north. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• And this was what prevented him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Cassy's air and manner, address, and evident command of money, prevented any rising disposition to suspicion in the hotel. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Thus, as Mr. Chesterton suggests, no determinist is prevented from saying if you please to the housemaid. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I had dreaded this from the firSt. I would have prevented it, if she had allowed me the smallest chance of doing so. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I not only prevented him getting off the marshes, but I dragged him here,--dragged him this far on his way back. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• One of the best-known cells in which weakening of the current is prevented by chemical means is the so-called gravity cell. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When the bed is finished, the strips are clamped with steel clamps, the turned-up ends of which firmly grip the sides of the bed, thus preventing warping or spreading. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A method of preventing in a great measure friction of water against the hull of a ship and incidentally preventing fouling by barnacles. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I am convinced, madam, said Edmund, preventing Fanny, that Sir Thomas would not like it. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I might have some hope of preventing the elopement; but there's the same difficulty, Mr. Walker, just the same. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The fibrous husks of cocoanuts are prepared in such a way as to form cellulose, which is used for the protection of warships, preventing the inflow of water through shot holes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I _am_ of some use, I hope, in preventing waste and making the most of things. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The want of relation in the ideas breaks the relation of the impressions, and by such a separation prevents their mutual operation and influence. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• In mountainous regions, the topography of the land prevents the elimination of all steep grades, but nevertheless the attempt is always made to follow the easiest grades. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The fact that the oxygen of the air is diluted as it were with so large a proportion of nitrogen, prevents fires from sweeping over the world and destroying everything in their path. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• What prevents me? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Thus the pointed rod either prevents the stroke from the cloud, or, if a stroke is made, conducts it to the earth with safety to the building. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Add to this that the nomadic life prevents any great class inequalities or any extensive development of slavery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Her contrariness prevents her taking it seriously--she must never be too serious, she feels she might give herself away. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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