| 词汇 | prevented |
| 释义 | prevented past simple and past participle ofprevent 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 bottleneck derail fireproof guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom head off preclusive prejudice prevent preventable preventative scuttle smother Examples of preventedprevented In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. An inefficient tax system could thus have survived if political rigidities prevented a ruler from changing it. 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. This is very likely to be a causal influence, because the subsequent delays are prevented by better feeding. The intervention delayed or prevented rehospitalization of patients during the first six weeks after discharge. The onset of diabetes can be delayed, if not prevented, by lifestyle and drug management. Unreceptive females either flew away or prevented mating by a series of aggressive movements. So long as judges prevented the legislature from encroaching too much on private rights in the name of the public, the process had worked splendidly. However, in the change blindness experiments, conditions were arranged such that the transient that would normally occur was prevented from playing its attention-grabbing role. Lack of appreciation and support for research by managers and lack of structures to facilitate research within the organization prevented research capacity being developed. This gap between the elite and the masses prevented the evolution of a code of ethics and a social contract to resolve divisive issues. Although participating staff believed that the project had prevented hospital admissions, it would require a comparative study to adequately assess its impact. Doubts over its constitutional validity, along with the transition to democratic rule, prevented its immediate approval. Thus, the federal executive was prevented from securing favourable political conditions in several key states before the election took place. As expected, larger proportions of men with higher educational levels tended to feel that pregnancy could be prevented. 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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