| 词汇 | prevent |
| 释义 | prevent verb[ T ] uk /prɪˈvent/ us /prɪˈvent/ B1 to stop something from happening or someone from doing something: 阻止，妨碍；预防 Label your suitcases to prevent confusion.在你的手提箱上贴上标签以防弄混。 [ + -ing verb ]His disability prevents him (from) driving.他有残疾，不能开车。 to prevent something from happening preventVaccination will prevent the spread of the disease. avoidLabel the boxes to avoid confusion. stopThis should stop any further trouble. avertWe had to act quickly to avert disaster. prohibitBehavioural problems in the classroom prohibit learning. checkChildren are being vaccinated in an attempt to check the spread of the disease. The police seem to be powerless to prevent these attacks. She would go over the accident again and again in her mind, wishing that she could somehow have prevented it. A block in the pipe was preventing the water from coming through. Fierce winds prevented the race from taking place.狂风致使比赛无法进行。 The law has done little to prevent racial discrimination and inequality.法律在阻止种族歧视和种族不平等方面很少有作为。 Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably fireproof flameproof frustration guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom preclude preclusion preclusive prejudice preventable scuttle smother suffocate prevent | American Dictionaryprevent verb[ T ] us/prɪˈvent/ to stop something from happening or someone from doing something: The police tried to prevent him from leaving. Can this type of accident be prevented? preventableadjectiveus/prɪˈven·tə·bəl/ Fortunately, the suffering caused by ulcers is entirely preventable. preventionnoun[ U ]us/prɪˈven·ʃən/ crime prevention Examples of preventprevent Note that this phenomenon has a purely inertial character; viscous forces cannot prevent it, although these forces guarantee the space regularity of the solution. Pragmatic randomized trial of antenatal intervention to prevent postnatal depression by reducing psychosocial risk factors. An inefficient tax system could thus have survived if political rigidities prevented a ruler from changing it. Ximelagatran acts by binding directly to free and clot-bound thrombin, thereby preventing the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the primary component of blood clots (28). He found that serious injury was rare following an incident as either intervention or luck tended to prevent significant harm in the majority of cases. Do school-based social skills training programs prevent alcohol use among young people? An average of five word graphs is visible on the vertical screen to prevent displaying too much information. Unfortunately, the logarithm prevents every useful factorization of such an average and makes this method impracticable. This simple mechanism prevents the optimizer from trying to run through walls. The effect of downregulating the signalling pathways is to push deterioration back in time, not to prevent it. This research did not prevent any human beings coming into existence who would otherwise have come into existence. An intending swimmer is prevented from entering the sea, because (it is reasonable to suppose) this person does not realize that the tides are dangerous. Different perceptions of land claims and differing patterns of land use prevented the possibility of mutual accommodation. That is uncertainty to such a degree that it prevents a clear-cut decision, but whose resolution will enable a definite decision to be made. Here we just recall the basic definitions to prevent confusion. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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