precaution是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 预防，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The court was all bestrewn with herbs and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.
-- Mr. Attorney-General now signified to my Lord, that he 101deemed it necessary, as a matter of precaution and form, to call the young lady's father, Doctor Manette.
-- The precaution that had been taken to account for his silence, Mr. Lorry had 290 A tale of two citiespreviously explained to him, and he had written to Lucie in accordance with it, and she had no suspicions.
-- The having originated a precaution which was already in course of execution, was a great relief to Miss Pross.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The robber maiden lifted up little Gerda, and took the precaution to bind her fast on the Reindeer's back; she even gave her a small cush-ion to sit on.
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：
-- There was lack of precaution on both sides, however, for Porfiry Petrovitch seemed to be laughing in his visitor's face and to be very little disturbed at the annoyance with which the visitor received it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The mamma,' said Traddles- 'Reverend Horace Crewler- when Imentioned it with every possible precaution to Mrs. Crewler, theeffect upon her was such that she gave a scream and becameinsensible, I couldn't approach the subject again, for months.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eating his last slices of bread and ham, and drinking from the bottle of cider he had taken the precaution to bring with him, he got into the lonely waggon.
-- All that day Bathsheba and Liddy lived in the attic in a state of barricade; a precaution which proved to be needless as against Troy, for he did not appear in the neighbourhood or trouble them at all.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the sake of the love which does not exist as yet.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One paternal kind precaution he had taken to ensure my having a companion.
-- In the meantime I took every precaution to defend my person in case the fiend should openly attack me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks (including carvers), spoons (various), saltcellars, a meek little muffin confined with the utmost precaution under a strong iron cover, Moses in the bulrushes typified by a soft bit of butter in a quantity of parsley, a pale loaf with a powdered head, two proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fireplace on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat family urn; which the waiter staggered in with, expressing in his countenance burden and suffering.
-- No precaution could have been more obvious than our refraining from communication with him that day; yet this again increased my restlessness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his way home, on the evening he set aside for this momentous purpose, he took the precaution of stepping into a chemist's shop and buying a bottle of the very strongest smelling-salts.
-- Here the visitor, all unconscious of Mrs. Sparsit's magnanimous words, repeated his knock so loudly that the light porter hastened down to open the door; while Mrs. Sparsit took the precaution of concealing her little table, with all its appliances upon it, in a cupboard, and then decamped up-stairs, that she might appear, if needful, with the greater dignity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At all events, the precaution was a good one; though how utterly useless and unnecessary--but I must not anticipate.
-- But for the precaution and knowledge of our guide, our dislocated bodies, our crushed and broken limbs, would have been cast to the wind, like dust from some unknown meteor.
-- I dressed myself rapidly--and then taking the precaution to please my uncle, of wrapping myself in one of the coverlets, I rushed out of the grotto.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Chivery considered the latter precaution superfluous, but said she would try.
-- Mrs Sparkler, who was not unfeeling, had received them with a violent burst of grief, which had lasted twelve hours; after which, she had arisen to see about her mourning, and to take every precaution that could ensure its being as becoming as Mrs Merdle's.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the least tangle or kink in the coiling would, in running out, infallibly take somebody's arm, leg, or entire body off, the utmost precaution is used in stowing the line in its tub.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sikes shrugged his shoulders impatiently, as if he thought the precaution unnecessary; but complied, nevertheless, by requesting Miss Nancy to fetch him a jug of beer.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.
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