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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it will be well that I should first sound them, and to this end I will tell them to fly with their ships; but do you others go about among the host and prevent their doing so.'
-- If, however, he is too quick for us, go after him with your spear and hem him in to-wards the ships away from the Trojan camp, to prevent his getting back to the town.'
-- As peasants with their hounds chase a lion from their stock-yard, and watch by night to prevent his carrying off the pick of their herd he makes his greedy spring, but in vain, for the darts from many a strong hand fall thick around him, with burning brands that scare him for all his fury, and when morning comes he slinks foiled and angry away even so did Ajax, sorely against his will, retreat angrily before the Trojans, fearing for the ships of the Achaeans.
-- Then Nestor knight of Gerene, answered, 'It is indeed as you say; it is all coming true at this moment, and even Jove who thunders from on high cannot prevent it.
-- But even so, Patroclus, fall upon them and save the fleet, lest the Trojans fire it and prevent us from being able to return.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suppose he wants to rob who can prevent him?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stopped just in time to prevent myself emerging upon an open space.
-- I had even a certain wish to encounter Moreau face to face; and as I had waded into the water, I remembered that if I were too hard pressed at least one path of escape from torment still lay open to me, they could not very well prevent my drowning myself.
-- I got Montgomery over to me in a way; but I and he had the hardest job to prevent the Kanakas deserting.
-- Montgomery had burnt the boats to revenge himself upon me and prevent our return to man-kind!
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most native hunt-ers always singe a tiger's whiskers to prevent his ghost from haunting them.
-- Kala Nag stood ten fair feet at the shoulders, and his tusks had been cut off short at five feet, and bound round the ends, to prevent them splitting, with bands of copper; but he could do more with those stumps than any untrained elephant could do with the real sharpened ones.
-- The next few days were spent in getting the elephants to-gether, in walking the newly caught wild elephants up and down between a couple of tame ones to prevent them giv-ing too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn out or lost in the forest.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In order, however, to prevent unnecessary alarm, he still preserved an air of calmness and friendship.
-- 'Tis most unfortunately true, sir,' said Duncan, unable any longer to prevent his eyes from sinking to the floor in embarrassment.
-- Individuals from either party interfered; the one side to prevent and the oth-er to aid in the robbery.
-- 'All that you say is very true, my friend,' replied Heyward; 'still, our customs must prevent us from doing as you wish.'
-- At night, the utmost care had been taken of the captives, both to prevent injury from the damps of the woods and to guard against an escape.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But that doesn't prevent the fact that Charles Strickland is a heartless beast."
-- If you want to bring him here, how can I prevent you?"
-- I had to bite my lip to prevent myself from laughing.
-- "I did not like him, I have told you he was not sympathetic to me, but as I walked slowly down to Taravao I could not prevent an unwilling admiration for the stoical courage which enabled him to bear perhaps the most dreadful of human afflictions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was necessary at any cost to arrest their downward course, and to prevent the balloon from being engulfed in the waves.
-- It was impossible to prevent the escape of gas, which rushed through a large rent in the silk.
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