Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Cassy's air and manner, address, and evident command of money, prevented any rising disposition to suspicion in the hotel. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Thus, as Mr. Chesterton suggests, no determinist is prevented from saying if you please to the housemaid. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
I had dreaded this from the firSt. I would have prevented it, if she had allowed me the smallest chance of doing so. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
I not only prevented him getting off the marshes, but I dragged him here,--dragged him this far on his way back. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
One of the best-known cells in which weakening of the current is prevented by chemical means is the so-called gravity cell. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
But Fate intervened enviously and prevented her from receiving the reward due to such immaculate love and virtue. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
The gray came in just after, and thereby prevented any ill treatment which the others might have given me. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Though, mind,' added Mr. Pickwick, hastily checking himself--'mind, I do not say I should have prevented it, if I had known that it was intended. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
And now she was very conscious that she ought to have prevented them. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
My troubled mind had prevented me from noticing it before. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
You have saved an innocent man's life, and you have prevented a very grave scandal, which would have ruined my reputation in the Force. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
The lack of such a place never prevented experimentation, however, as long as he had a dollar in his pocket and some available hole in the wall. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
He was often hoping, intending to comebut was always prevented. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
I will not be prevented, however, from making my own communication. 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
A new company was proposed, and prevented only by admitting a number of new partners. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
And she lifted it, though he would have prevented her, and put it to her lips. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
She might have prevented the indulgence and increase of such sentiments. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
But it was a merciful Providence which prevented him from foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depths of that gloomy wood. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
Could a repetition of it be prevented? 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
She was thinking in her heart, It was George Osborne who prevented my marriage. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
To think that it should come to this, when I might have known it and perhaps prevented it, if I hadn't been a thoughtless fool! 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Dr. Franklin's increasing infirmities prevented his regular attendance at the council chamber, and in 1788 he retired wholly from public life. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
He retreated into the corner, step by step; but do what he would, the interposition of his own person, prevented its being opened to its utmost width. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
And as my extreme weakness prevented me from getting up and going to him, I lay there, penitently whispering, O God bless him! 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Thus, the paper passed between the drum and the two small wheels, and, as dry paper is a non-conductor, current was prevented from passing until a perforation was reached. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
His foreign birth, and he refused to throw off his allegiance to his native country, alone prevented him from filling the first offices in the state. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
That this exportation could only be prevented by a proper attention to what they called the balance of trade. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The difficulty of making a way through the dense forests prevented Burnside from getting up in time to be of any service on the forenoon of the sixth. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.