prevent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (from) 预防， 防止， 阻止， 制止， 妨碍，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Legally, you can't prevent me.
-- "And if you try to prevent our going, God help you!And the way this town will laugh at you!.
-- Well, I don't know of anything to prevent your studying at home!You consider yourself so much better educated than these rustics, but I notice you say 'gosh' and 'Big Guns' and that sort of thing.
-- He was to placate voluble voters who came in to complain of everything from the smell of sewer- gas to the midnight beer parties of neighbors; he was to dictate office correspondence to the touchy stenographer, who was not a Working Girl but a Nice Girl Who Was Working; to give publicity to the newspapers; to buy paper-clips and floor-wax and report-blanks at the lowest prices; to assist, in need, the two part-time physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary inspectors; to scold the Garbage Removal Company; to arrest--or at least to jaw at--all public spitters; to leap into a Ford and rush out to tack placards on houses in which were infectious diseases; to keep a learned implacable eye on epidemics from Vladivostok to Patagonia, and to prevent (by methods not very clearly outlined) their coming in to slay the yeomanry and even halt the business activities of Nautilus.
-- Behind the Clean Up and Prevent Fires exhibit, consisting of a miniature Dirty House with red arrows to show where a fire might start and an extremely varnished Clean House, there was an alcove with a broken window which would carry off the smoke of their cigarettes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what are you going to do to prevent it?
-- Fearing the old woman would be frightened by their being alone, and not hoping that the sight of him would disarm her suspicions, he took hold of the door and drew it towards him to prevent the old woman from attempting to shut it again.
-- I didn't want even to show him the letter, but to prevent him from coming by some stratagem with your help 芒聙娄 because he is so irrita-ble芒聙娄.
-- If there were a millionth fraction of self-interest in my offer, I should not have made it so openly; and I should not have offered her ten thou-sand only, when five weeks ago I offered her more, Besides, I may, perhaps, very soon marry a young lady, and that alone ought to prevent suspicion of any design on Avdotya Ro-manovna.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am as rickety as a hackney-coach, I'm as sleepy as laudanum, my lines is strained to that degree that I shouldn't know, if it wasn't for the pain in 'em, which was me and which somebody else, yet I'm none the better for it in pocket; and it's my suspicion that you've been at it from morning to night to prevent me from being the better for it in pocket, and I won't put up with it, Aggerawayter, and what do you say now!'
-- 'Nevertheless,' pursued Darnay, rising to ring the bell, 'there is nothing in that, I hope, to prevent my calling the reckoning, and our parting without ill-blood on either side.'
-- I mean to tell you, Mr. Stryver,' said Mr. Lorry, reddening, 'that I will hear no disrespectful word of that young lady from any lips; and that if I knew any man which I hope I do not whose taste was so coarse, and whose temper was so overbearing, that he could not re-strain himself from speaking disrespectfully of that young lady at this desk, not even Tellson's should prevent my giv-205ing him a piece of my mind.'
-- His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition.
-- In this car of triumph, not even the Doctor's entreaties could prevent his being carried to his home on men's shoulders, with a confused sea of red caps heaving about him, and casting up to sight from the 408 A tale of two citiesstormy deep such wrecks of faces, that he more than once misdoubted his mind being in confusion, and that he was in the tumbril on his way to the Guillotine.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he saw that his expectations were realized, that there was nothing to prevent him from speaking, his face became gloomy.
-- She knew that he said that simply to show that family considerations could not prevent him from expressing his genuine opinion.
-- "In general terms, he'll say in his official manner, and with all distinctness and precision, that he cannot let me go, but will take all measures in his power to prevent scandal.
-- 'She puts the child on the hen-roost and repeats some charm....' " "Well, you're saying it yourself!What's wanted to prevent her taking her child to the hen-roost to cure it of screaming fits is just..." Sviazhsky said, smiling good-humoredly.
-- To legitimize the child, to compromise me, and prevent a divorce," he thought.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We must prevent their seeing us, if possible."
-- Sometimes, however, the sacrifice is really voluntary, and it requires the active interference of the Government to prevent it.
-- But, awkwardly enough, the guards now appeared at the rear of the temple, and there installed themselves, in readiness to prevent a surprise.
-- I have failed at Bombay, and I have failed at Calcutta; if I fail at Hong Kong, my reputation is lost: Cost what it may, I must succeed!But how shall I prevent his departure, if that should turn out to be my last resource?"
-- Should he perceive Colonel Proctor, we could not prevent a collision which might have terrible results.
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