His mother convinced that he had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, and laid down some rules.
他的母亲认为他应该做一些激动人心的事情以防止他过上失败的人生，所以他的母亲制定了一些规则。
His mother convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure and lay down some rules.
他的母亲认为她必须做一些戏剧性的事情以防他过上失败的人生，她还制定了一些规则。
Learning to control your emotion now will prevent you from doing something that you'll regret later on in life!
现在就学着控制情绪能让你避免做一些可能使你以后遗憾一生的事情。
Scientists would like to prevent something like that from happening in the future, but it would take time to figure out how to best knock an incoming asteroid off its collision course.
科学家希望能够防止今后发生类似的事件，但要弄清楚如何才能最好地阻断小行星碰撞地球的过程，还需要一定的时间。
In the past, a competitor might use patents to prevent you from selling a copy of something they made, but they couldn't prevent you from taking one apart to see how it worked.
在过去，竞争者或许可以利用专利阻止你销售他们生产的东西，但无法阻止你把它拆开来研究。
But for now, if a woman has breast cancer and is taking aspirin, she may take some comfort in knowing she might be doing something to help prevent her breast cancer from recurring.
但现在，如果一位妇女患有乳腺癌并在服用阿司匹林，她知道她的正在做的事情可能有助于防止乳腺癌复发，这可能给她带来一些安慰。
Given that an organism has limited supplies of all of these things, something must happen to prevent the cost of having a brain from gradually spiralling out of control.
考虑到所有这些在一个生物体中都是有限的，所以必然存在某种机制来预防大脑的消耗逐渐超出负荷。
Those under 25 say the new law is unlikely to do much to prevent them from having a drink, but only will turn something harmless into a crime.
这些25岁以下的青年们说，新法律未必能阻止他们喝酒，却会把一项本来无害的事变成违法。
In order to make rivers and lakes clean and prevent water from being polluted, we must do something to stop all sorts of pollution.
为了保持河流湖泊清洁，防止水污染，我们必须采取措施，阻止各种污染。
Without doubt, something must be done to prevent this famous river from being polluted by the waste water piped from cities.
毫无疑问，必须做些事情来阻止这条著名的河流被从城市里输送过来的的污水污染。
Prevent is a verb, which means to stop something from happening or someone from doing something.
也是动词，意指阻止事情发生或某人去做某事。
It is high time we did something to prevent such a scene from happening.
现在是时候该我们做一些事以防止发生这样的事情。
When competent, sensible people do something stupid, the smartest move is to try to figure out, first, what kept them from seeing it coming and second, how to prevent the problem from happening again.
原本是正常的人却做了傻事，那么最应该做的就是先要找出是什么让他们没能预见到要发生的事情，然后是如何防止以后再发生类似的事情。
Of course, they have promised to do something to prevent the water from being polluted.
当然，他们会承诺采取措施来保护水污染。
It is high time for us to do something to prevent it from being worse.
是时候让我们做些事情来阻止它恶化。
Contrary to the old saying that power is something to prevent somebody from doing something or forbid somebody to do something, Foucault considered the power a network.
他一反过去所谓的权力就是禁止或阻止人们做某种事情的力量的说法，而将权力看作是一种网络关系。
It is high time we did something to prevent such a scene from happening.
现在我们是时候行动起来以防止这样的事情发生了。
If, on the other hand, the learners are forced to be "captive audience", then Attention strategies will be necessary to prevent the learners from thinking something else in the air.
如果，学习者被迫成为被动受众，那么注意策略将变得非常重要以防止学习者走神。
With trees rapidly flashing by, I felt as if there is something continually gathering in my throat, and I tried supressing it to prevent Mum from hearing of my sob.
喉间好像有东西堵着并不断积聚，我用力将它压下，防止母亲听到我抽泣。
Human who become the titans' food have built up huge city walls to prevent the titans' invasion, even if this brief safe came from something by sacrificing their freedom.
成为巨人食物的人类筑起了巨大高耸的城墙，牺牲通往墙外的自由，换来防止对方的侵略。
Something happened in the trial to prevent me from defending myself.
审判中发生的一些事情组织我自我保护。
The environment is becoming worse and worse, we must do something to prevent people from polluting the environment.
现在环境变得越来越差，我们必须要采取行动来阻止环境污染。
The environment is becoming worse and worse, we must do something to prevent people from polluting the environment.
现在环境变得越来越差，我们必须要采取行动来阻止环境污染。
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