Preclude
[prɪ'kluːd] or [prɪ'klud]
解释:
(v.) To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.
(v.) To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.
哈里特编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Prevent, hinder, debar, impede, restrain, prohibit, inhibit, stop, bar, shut out.
格雷琴编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Prevent, obviate, bar, debar, impede, hinder
ANT:Admit, promote, further, advance
整理:希欧多尔
解释:
v.t. to shut out beforehand: to hinder by anticipation: to keep back: to prevent from taking place.—n. Preclū′sion act of precluding or hindering: state of being precluded.—adj. Preclū′sive tending to preclude: hindering beforehand.—adv. Preclū′sively.
汉密尔顿校对
例句:
- The result was his perfection of a lamp that would furnish the miners with sufficient light and yet preclude risk of exploding fire-damp. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The fact that some implements are polished does not preclude the presence of great quantities of implements of unpolished stone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Calico printers are using half a pound of the acid to every 100 pounds of dressing starch, in order to entirely preclude the disagreeable odor arising after awhile from dry goods in store. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- My means were very limited--so limited as to preclude the possibility of constructing an apparatus of such mechanical finish as to warrant my success in venturing upon its public exhibition. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The hour at which I arrived in London precluded all hope of my finding Mr. Bruff at his place of business. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The carrying trade, though it deserves no preference, ought not to be precluded, but to be left free, like all other trades. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- An union of a different tendency, and precluding the possibility of the other, was soon to be formed in their family. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
校对:卢埃林