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prevention

/pri-ven-shuhn/US // prɪˈvɛn ʃən //UK // (prɪˈvɛnʃən) //

预防,防止,预防措施,预防工作

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of preventing; effectual hindrance.
    • : a preventive: This serum is a prevention against disease.

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Examples

  • In 2018, the state passed a law dedicating $1 billion over five years to wildfire prevention.

  • Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.

  • Stop the smells before they startYour grandmother may have covered this one when you were young, but in case you need a reminder, keep in mind that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

  • Above all, workers shouldn’t put themselves in the direct line of danger, according to the federal agency that usually focuses on disease prevention.

  • According to one recent contract I obtained, customers must “use the system only for the detection, prevention, and investigation of crimes and terrorism and ensure the system will not be used for human rights violations.”

  • Once, when occupying a cell in near a phone, I saw the suicide prevention protocols in action.

  • In 2005, the company got a call from a new, unexpected client: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  • As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repeatedly noted, Ebola is not transferred through air.

  • Since the 10th century, Bulgaria has practiced varying forms of prevention to keep vampires from coming back to life.

  • The NFL is now requiring violence prevention education and training for all players and staff.

  • The prevention of this evil, therefore, was an object which a reformed house of commons was especially bound to secure.

  • Hence the only safe, as well as the only advantageous way out of this confusion is to go forward on the Principle of Prevention.

  • The important practical question is the prevention of the fulfilment of the morbid impulse during these impressionable years.

  • Prevention consists in cutting the roots; not feeding them when the animals are very hungry, and not disturbing them while eating.

  • Thus was the metropolis happily preserved; but the bloody part of the intended tragedy was past prevention.