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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But get him where I will, could I prevent his coming back?"
-- It was the sole resource; for he told me that the case must be over in five minutes when the witness was there, and that no power on earth could prevent its going against us.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.
-- thought she, as she woke up and looked at it through the window, 'after all I cannot prevent the sun rising.'
-- 'If only I can prevent anyone knowing that I did it,' she thought.
-- Then he gave him the ship which could sail on land and water, and when the king saw that, he could no longer prevent him from hav-ing his daughter.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After about two hours the court retired, and I was left with a strong guard, to prevent the impertinence, and probably the malice of the rabble, who were very impatient to crowd about me as near as they durst; and some of them had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me, as I sat on the ground by the door of my house, whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye.
-- His majesty gave orders, upon pain of death, that every soldier in his march should observe the strictest decency with re-gard to my person; which however could not prevent some of the younger officers from turning up their eyes as they passed under me: and, to confess the truth, my breeches were at that time in so ill a condition, that they afforded some opportunities for laughter and admiration.
-- On those occasions, when a servant had given me notice, my custom was to go immediately to the door, and, after paying my re-spects, to take up the coach and two horses very carefully in my hands (for, if there were six horses, the postillion al-ways unharnessed four,) and place them on a table, where I had fixed a movable rim quite round, of five inches high, to prevent accidents.
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- My master, for his own interest, would not suffer any one to touch me except my nurse; and to prevent danger, benches were set round the table at such a distance as to put me out of every body's reach.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The object of his miserable existence was to prevent its recognition by any one among the various people he encountered.
-- He tightened his hold in time to prevent her sinking on the floor, but she cried out in a terrible voice, 'I shall die if you hold me!Let me fall upon the ground!'
-- I mistrust that by his coming back of his own accord, and showing himself innocent before them all, some one would be confounded, who to prevent that has stopped him, and put him out of the way.'
-- But I tell you what I'll do, Thquire; I'll drive your thon and thith young man over to the rail, and prevent expothure here.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well," said my uncle, who dug his nails into his flesh, and pressed his knees tightly together to prevent himself leaping up with joy.
-- How were we to prevent ourselves from slipping down the steeply inclined plane?
-- Hans, however, who in all our troubles had never given up the ropes, took care so to dispose of them as to prevent any accidents.
-- Hans, the guide, after many vain efforts, at last succeeded in lighting it, and the flame, having now nothing to prevent its burning, shed a tolerably clear light.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even Clifford's cool and contactless assurance that he belonged to the rul-ing class didn't prevent his tongue lolling out of his mouth, as he panted after the bitch-goddess.
-- 'But you MUST!I shall prevent the child from being le-gally yours, if I can.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They may be coming hundreds, thousands, of miles over the sea there; they may be close at hand now; they may be coming, for anything you know or anything you can do to prevent it, from the vilest sweepings of this very town.'
-- Mechanicians, natural philosophers, soldiers, sailors, petitioners, memorialists, people with grievances, people who wanted to prevent grievances, people who wanted to redress grievances, jobbing people, jobbed people, people who couldn't get rewarded for merit, and people who couldn't get punished for demerit, were all indiscriminately tucked up under the foolscap paper of the Circumlocution Office.
-- As he stretched out his length upon it, with a ragged handkerchief bound round his wicked head, and only his wicked head showing above the bedclothes, John Baptist was rather strongly reminded of what had so very nearly happened to prevent the moustache from any more going up as it did, and the nose from any more coming down as it did.
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