prevent详细意思

1. 阻止，妨碍，防止，阻挡，制止，避免
2. 先做
3. 先去，先来，先行，先走一步
4. 预防，防害
5. 预先
6. 迎合（愿望）
7. 预先应付（问题）
8. 【宗】引领
9. 约束，不准，杜绝，抵触
10. 行动在之前
11. 冲突

1. keep from happening or arising; make impossible;

   "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"
   "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"
   

2. stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state;

   "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"
   "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"
   "Keep the child from eating the marbles"
   

1.防止；预防；阻止
Toprevent something means to ensure that it does not happen.

e.g. These methodsprevent pregnancy...
这些方法能防止怀孕。
e.g. Further treatment willprevent cancer from developing...
进一步的治疗将阻止癌症恶化。

2.阻止；制止；阻碍
Toprevent someonefrom doing something means to make it impossible for them to do it.

e.g. He said this wouldprevent companies from creating new jobs...
他说这将使公司无法创造新的工作机会。
e.g. Its nationals may be prevented from leaving the country...
其国民可能会被禁止出境。

• prevent a destructive explosion防止破坏性爆炸
• prevent a disaster预防一场灾难
• prevent a smile克制住笑
• prevent a war阻止一场战争
• prevent damage防止损害
• prevent its freezing防止它冻结
• prevent the airplane's taking off使飞机无法起飞
• prevent the spread of pneumonia预防肺炎蔓延

• prevent admirably很好地预防
• prevent automatically自动防止
• prevent cautiously小心地预防
• prevent completely完全阻止
• prevent effectively有效地预防
• prevent effectually有效地预防
• prevent forcibly强有力地防止
• prevent fully完全阻止
• prevent mechanically机械性地防止
• prevent medically医疗防止
• prevent permanently永久防止
• prevent probably可能防止
• prevent scientifically科学地预防
• prevent unavoidably不可避免地阻止
• prevent from阻止…发生
• prevent sb from coming阻止某人前来
• prevent disease from spreading防止这种疾病蔓延

• The fortunate soil assisted, and even prevented, the hand of cultivation.

  出自：Gibbon

• ☆ 15世纪初期进入英语，直接源自拉丁语的prventus，意为妨碍。