It was ordered to put pressure on Johnston's force to prevent it from helping Beauregard.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

It wasn't caused by the Fed's sudden tightening against inflation. It was different it was this recession was not understood not anticipated; the Fed came in late to cut interest rates to try to prevent it from being worse because it just didn't seem to have any reason for happening.

它不是由于美联储对通货膨胀的,突然紧缩政策造成的，它不同之处在于,这个经济衰退没有被理解，没有事先准备好；,美联储试图阻止它恶化而,降低利率为时已晚，因为,它似乎看起来没有任何理由发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

so it's about sort of war and peacekeeping and how you can prevent conflict and things like that.

内容就是关于战争，维和，还有如何防止出现冲突等等。

想进布朗的话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Carefully,I added some oil to the water to prevent it from drying.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Maybe it won't now that we have better plans to prevent things like that, but suppose it did happen.

也许现在不会，我们有更好的方案,阻止这种事情发生，假设它真的发生了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There is no cure for Parkinson's and no way to prevent it.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Now, it's Milton's annotators who tell us that the word prevent means "to come before, to anticipate," and on some level it obviously means that and that goes without question.

弥尔顿的注解告诉我们阻止一词的含义,“在某人之前到达，预期“,从某种程度上说它就是那个意思，这毫无疑问。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

All feared it. All tried to prevent it.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

And so there was a dispute and the pharmaceutical company sued the South African government to try to prevent their buying the cheap generic, as they saw it, pirated version of an AIDS drug.

因此这存在着纠纷,制药公司起诉了南非政府,以阻止他们购买这些低价的非专利药，在他们看来，这些都是盗版的艾滋病药。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They hoped something would happen to prevent it.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

And you can kick it down the road ... but somebody down the road... I think it's very important to make the tax cuts permanent to prevent the taxes from increasing It would be really a large drag on the economy.

你可以视若无睹,但总得有人来。,我认为，长期实行减税政策十分重要,这样可以避免税率增加,否则会极大地阻碍经济发展。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

He says because of the complex nature of the disease, early detection through screening is the best way to prevent it.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

It's a mechanism that they have evolved in order to prevent foreign genes from entering a cell and being expressed.

它们进化出这种机制来,防止异源基因进入细胞并表达

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Their goal: to find ways to fix the economic crisis and to prevent it from happening again.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

It was a subject of much discussion of what to do to prevent these bank runs.

这是一个需要很多关于如何做才能,阻止这种银行倒塌的探讨的话题。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

that single women wouldn't have babies anymore because they could prevent it until they were married.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

It's contracting so the Fed is trying to prevent a serious recession by cutting interest rates; they've been cutting them rapidly.

它在减小,所以美联储正在试图阻止一个因为利率缩减,而产生的严重的经济衰退；,但是他们最近一直在降低利率。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Both sides in this debate acknowledge the threat of terrorism, but are divided over how to prevent it and how to preserve the country's democratic values.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

See how from far upon the Eastern road The Star-led wizards haste with odors sweet: O run, prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at His blessed feet.

看一下明星引导的术士们是怎么,从东方遥远的路途上带着馨香匆忙赶路的：,快些，快把你们卑微的歌辞献上，谦虚地在他圣洁的脚下安放。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj said the current political crisis would not adversely impact its role on the council or prevent it from taking common positions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

So, you're treating healthy people and you're trying to prevent them from getting a disease and you don't know who's going to get it.

所以,你处治的对象是健康人群,要使他们远离疾病,但你不知道谁会被感染

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The second is that you do not take active steps to prevent it.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Nobody knows how bad the mortgage crisis is going to get but Ben Bernanke thinks that it's so important that we prevent a collapse that we should take that risk.

没有人知道抵押危机,到底会有多坏的影响，但是本？伯南克认为,预防承担那个风险所带来的暴跌,是非常重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the United States in 2009, new recommendations on mammograms by a government appointed panel of experts fueled a controversy around breast cancer and how to prevent it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Pentagon Spokesman Bryan Whitman says Secretary Gates has met with top officials and told them to ensure the investigation into the Ft.Hood massacre is comprehensive, and also to look at whether there was anything the department could have done to prevent it.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

It is usually much better to prevent a problem from happening than it is to find ways to solve it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

But one possibility, he says,is that it may take time away from sports or other activities that could help prevent depression.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

It has a long name: the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

But one possibility,he says, is that it may take time away from activities that could help prevent depression, like sports and socializing.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

If that proves true, it would help thousands of people who are seeking to prevent life-threatening conditions.

VOA: special.2009.10.20