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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John Mangles remained on deck the whole night, for though as yet the sky was still unclouded, he had such faith in his weather-glass, that he took every precaution that prudence could suggest.
-- This precaution was necessary, for an attack on the part of the convicts would be easy enough, and therefore probable enough.
-- John took the precaution to place in the interstices half a dozen empty barrels, which would raise the structure above the level of the water.
-- Without this precaution it would certainly have given way, and the raft must have drifted to destruction.
-- Glenarvan took every possible precaution for the night.
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：
-- We had taken the precaution of leaving our boots behind us, but, even so, the old boards snapped and creaked beneath our tread.
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：
-- The repast, which was greatly aided by the addition of a few delicacies that Heyward had the precaution to bring with him when they left their horses, was exceedingly re-freshing to the weary party.
-- 'Our captors had the precaution to see us shod like them-selves,' said Duncan, raising a foot, and exhibiting the buckskin he wore.
-- He, therefore, took the precaution to place himself against the trunk of a tree, where he leaned for many minutes, and seemed to contemplate the dark and silent mounds of the English works in profound attention.
-- His companions complied, though to two of them the reasons of this extraordinary precaution were yet a mys- tery.
-- Just then the crafty squaw, who had taken the necessary precaution to fire the piles, made her way through the throng, and cleared a place for herself in front of the captive.
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：
-- He had some reason to conceal the fact that he had run away with a woman, and he was using every precaution to hide her whereabouts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft and Herbert, after having taken the precaution of collecting an ample supply of lithodomes, with which they filled their pockets and handkerchiefs, regained the foot of the cliff.
-- This was done that very day, and it is needless to add, that every precaution was taken that the experiment might succeed.
-- It was evident that this chest had been thrown overboard from some dismasted vessel driven towards the island, and that, in the hope that it would reach the land, where they might afterwards find it, the passengers had taken the precaution to buoy it up by means of this floating apparatus.
-- As a precaution the guns were loaded with ball, and Top, who led the van, received orders to beat about the edge of the forest.
-- The reporter and the lad secured a good store of the precious plant, and then returned to Granite House, where they smuggled it in with as much precaution as if Pencroft had been the most vigilant and severe of custom-house officers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The apartment was very far removed from the old man's chamber, but Mr Quilp deemed it prudent, as a precaution against infection from fever, and a means of wholesome fumigation, not only to smoke, himself, without cessation, but to insist upon it that his legal friend did the like.
-- She had had the precaution to furnish her basket with some slices of bread and meat, and here they made their frugal breakfast.
-- As a precaution against this latter inconvenience, Mr Swiveller had been sitting for some time with his feet on the hob, in which attitude he now gave utterance to these apologetic observations, and slowly sipped the last choice drops of nectar.
-- While they were on the way back, Mr Swiveller, upon whom his present functions sat very irksomely, took an opportunity of whispering in his ear that if he would confess his guilt, even by so much as a nod, and promise not to do so any more, he would connive at his kicking Sampson Brass on the shins and escaping up a court; but Kit indignantly rejecting this proposal, Mr Richard had nothing for it, but to hold him tight until they reached Bevis Marks, and ushered him into the presence of the charming Sarah, who immediately took the precaution of locking the door.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But why should such precaution be used? Though it is not to be supposed that Mrs. Ferrars can have the smallest satisfaction in knowing that her son has money enough to live upon, for THAT must be quite out of the question; yet why, upon her late behaviour, is she supposed to feel at all? She has done with her son, she cast him off for ever, and has made all those over whom she had any influence, cast him off likewise.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was secretly somewhat pleased by the fact that much of her husband's property was in her name, a precaution which Hurstwood had taken when his home interests were somewhat more alluring than at present.
-- As a rule, no money except the cash taken in after banking hours was kept about the place, and that was locked in the safe by the cashier, who, with the owners, was joint keeper of the secret combination, but, nevertheless, Hurstwood nightly took the precaution to try the cash drawers and the safe in order to see that they were tightly closed.
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