Preclude

(verb.) make impossible, especially beforehand.

克劳德特录入

• 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