prevent
美音:
[prı´vent
]英音:
[prı´vent
]v.防止,预防
难易程度:
prevent为高中词汇
词频:980
词形变化:
动词过去式:prevented 过去分词:prevented 现在分词:preventing 第三人称单数:prevents 形容词:preventable 名词:preventability
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ven,vent=to come(来到)
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prevent
/prɪ'vent; prɪ`vɛnt/
v [Tn, Tn.pr, Tsg] ~ sb/sth (from doing sth) stop or hinder sb/sth 阻止或妨碍某人[某事物]
*prevent the spread of a disease/a disease from spreading 防止某种疾病的蔓延
* Nobody can prevent us/our getting married. 谁也阻止不了我们结婚.
* Your prompt action prevented a serious accident. 你由于动作敏捷而防止了一次严重事故.
prevent
v [T]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin;Origin: , past participle of praevenire 'to come before']
to stop something from happening, or stop someone from doing something
The rules are intended to prevent accidents.
prevent sb/sth (from) doing sth
His back injury may prevent him from playing in tomorrow's game.
We were prevented from entering the site.
Wrap small ornaments in paper to prevent them being damaged.
>preventableadj
preventable diseases
Every one of these deaths is preventable.
1. We should prevent a miscarriage of the law. 我们应当防止执法不当。
2. The grounds are fenced in to prevent trespassing. 庭院用栅栏围著以防外人进去.
3. They tried hard to prevent the war. 他们力图防止战争。
4. The journey is so smooth that there is nothing to prevent you from reading or sleeping. 旅途平稳,丝毫不妨碍你阅读或睡眠。
5. The main problem facing Christiaan Barnard was how to prevent the body´s rejection of the new heart. 现在,克里斯蒂安·巴纳德所面临的主要问题是,如何防止人体对新心脏的排斥。
6. They can also show a lack of patience, displeasure, or judgment — any of which would prevent people from opening up. 交叉双臂还会向人暗示你缺乏耐心、心中不快,或者正在判断别人,其任何一点都会阻止别人向你畅开胸怀。
7. These books use simple, hand-drawn pictures of "sad faces" and "happy faces" to illustrate ways people can prevent AIDS. 这些书籍采用简单的、手工绘制的“忧伤的脸”和“幸福的脸”等图画,说明防止感染艾滋病的方法。
8. To get around that, one company is trying to alter the pig's genetic code to prevent pig organs from being attacked. 为了克服这一障碍,有一家公司正在试图改变猪的基因码,以避免猪的器官受到排斥。
9. Their job is to prevent anyone from taking goods across the border illegally. 他们的工作就是阻止任何人非法运送货物出入境。
10. Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion 即使知道勤奋的蚂蚁生活具有高度组织性的社会里,我们也无法抑制对它们的反感。
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