Preventive
[prɪ'ventɪv] or [pri'vɛntɪv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease; 'the doctor recommended several preventatives'.
(adj.) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease; 'preventive medicine'; 'vaccines are prophylactic'; 'a prophylactic drug' .
(adj.) tending to prevent or hinder .
手打:萨曼莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Going before; preceding.
(a.) Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.
(n.) That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
恩里科整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Prophylactic.
n. Prophylactic.
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例句/造句/用法:
- They carry their preventive with them; they sweat and fumigate all the day long. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Happiness is the cure--a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In printing, gum is added to the water with which the stone is moistened, as an additional preventive of the ink adhering to those parts not drawn upon. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- This repulsive pillow was her especial property, being used as a weapon of defense, a barricade, or a stern preventive of too much slumber. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Give a tablespoonful daily in feed; as a preventive, give twice a week. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The remedies, preventive and curative, follow: 1. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- None of the sheep that had been given the preventive treatment died from the crucial inocu lation; while all those succumbed which had not received previou s treatment. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Pasteur's preventive inoculation for anthrax was tested under dramatic circumstances at Melun in June, 1881. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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