prevention

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting. countable,uncountable
    — a fire prevention campaign
  2. Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.). countable,uncountable
    — Whatever cures are known, and preventions that are practiced now, could have been common knowledge centuries ago.
  3. The act of going, or state of being, before. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — It is generally knowne and obserued, that Light, and the Obiect of Sight, moue swifter than Sound; For we see the Flash of a Peece [i.e. firearm] is seene sooner, than the Noise is heard. […] And the greater the Distance, the greater is the Preuention: As we see in Thunder, which is farre off; where the Lightning Precedeth the Cracke a good space.
  4. Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — [Suffolk, York and Beaufort] Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings, And, fly thou how thou canst, they’ll tangle thee: But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared, Nor never seek prevention of thy foes.
  5. precaution; forethought. countable,uncountable
    — 1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, The Gospel according to S. LUKE, Chapter 14, verse 3, p. 238, And Jesus […] by way of prevention asked a question of the Doctors of the law and Pharisees that were present, saying, Is the working of a cure on a sick man a thing forbidden, and so unlawfull to be done upon a sabbath day?

词形变化

preventions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
angioprevention an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure antiprevention chemoprevention immunoprevention loss prevention nonprevention photoprevention prevenception preventional prevention is better than cure preventionism preventionist

词源

From Middle English prevencion, from Medieval Latin prēventiō.
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