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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 6, and went to my berth immediately, for I had heard that the best way to prevent sea-sickness is to go to bed as soon as you start, and not to stir for the first few days; and, moreover, I had been traveling for thirty hours.
-- Preparations commenced the same day, but as secretly as possible to prevent the Indians getting scent of it.
-- The sailors were all so eager to join the expedition that Glenarvan found the only way to prevent jealousy among them was to draw lots who should go.
-- The weather was splendid when they started, the sky a deep cloudless blue, and yet the atmosphere so tempered by the sea breezes as to prevent any feeling of oppressive heat.
-- "That doesn't prevent my regretting it," replied Paganel.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is no devil in hell, Mr. Holmes, and there is no man upon earth who can prevent me from going to the home of my own people, and you may take that to be my final answer.'
-- If their intentions are evil they might do you a mis-chief, and we should be powerless to prevent it.
-- Yet I am certain that he does not wish their intimacy to ripen into love, and I have several times observed that he has taken pains to prevent them from being t脣聠te-芒聙娄-t脣聠te.
-- Tell me straight, now!Is there anything that would prevent me from making a good husband to a woman that I loved?'
-- A guttering candle was stuck in a crevice of the rocks which flanked it on each side so as to keep the wind from it and also to prevent it from being visible, save in the direction of Baskerville Hall.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No one, at present; but I hope to make friends; and then I have a letter from ' 'At all events,' put in the general, not listening to the news about the letter, 'at all events, you must have learned SOMETHING, and your malady would not prevent your undertaking some easy work, in one of the departments, for instance?
-- This new woman gave him further to understand that though it was absolutely the same to her whom he married, yet she had decided to prevent this marriage for no par-ticular reason, but that she chose to do so, and because she wished to amuse herself at his expense for that it was 'quite her turn to laugh a little now!'
-- None of the band were very drunk, for the leader had kept his intended visit to Nastasia in view all day, and had done his best to prevent his followers from drinking too much.
-- 'Excellency, how could I, how could I prevent it?'
-- Lebedeff did his best to keep Ardalion Alexandrovitch by him, and to prevent him from invading the prince's quarters.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old goat whom I found expiring died in the mouth of the cave the next day after I made this discov-ery; and I found it much easier to dig a great hole there, and throw him in and cover him with earth, than to drag him out; so I interred him there, to prevent offence to my nose.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A present of fifty pounds, now and then, will prevent their ever being distressed for money, and will, I think, be amply discharging my promise to my father."
-- Mr. John Dashwood told his mother again and again how exceedingly sorry he was that she had taken a house at such a distance from Norland as to prevent his being of any service to her in removing her furniture.
-- But for this strange kind of secrecy maintained by them relative to their engagement, which in fact concealed nothing at all, she could not account; and it was so wholly contradictory to their general opinions and practice, that a doubt sometimes entered her mind of their being really engaged, and this doubt was enough to prevent her making any inquiry of Marianne.
-- I would not attempt to force the confidence of any one; of a child much less; because a sense of duty would prevent the denial which her wishes might direct."
-- And books! Thomson, Cowper, Scott she would buy them all over and over again: she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could scarcely prevent her voice from trembling.
-- The novelty and danger of the situation modified in a way his disgust and distress at being compelled to be here, but not enough to prevent him from feeling grim and sour.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, by sheer luck, a Carabineer* happened along, who, hearing all that noise, thought that it might be a runaway colt, and stood bravely in the middle of the street, with legs wide apart, firmly resolved to stop it and prevent any trouble.
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