Preclude
[prɪ'kluːd] or [prɪ'klud]
解釋/意思:
(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.
哈里特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Prevent, hinder, debar, impede, restrain, prohibit, inhibit, stop, bar, shut out.
格雷琴編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prevent, obviate, bar, debar, impede, hinder
ANT:Admit, promote, further, advance
整理:希欧多尔
解釋/意思:
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.
汉密尔顿校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The result was his perfection of a lamp that would furnish the miners with sufficient light and yet preclude risk of exploding fire-damp. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The fact that some implements are polished does not preclude the presence of great quantities of implements of unpolished stone. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The hour at which I arrived in London precluded all hope of my finding Mr. Bruff at his place of business. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The carrying trade, though it deserves no preference, ought not to be precluded, but to be left free, like all other trades. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- An union of a different tendency, and precluding the possibility of the other, was soon to be formed in their family. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
校對:卢埃林