Although the causes of cancer are being uncovered, we do not yet have any practical way to prevent it.

尽管癌症的病因正被揭开，但我们还没有任何预防它的有效的方法。

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They eat algae and prevent it from overwhelming the coral.

它们以藻类为食，防止藻类压垮珊瑚。

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Her father shall see her, I vowed, and vowed again, if that devil is killed on his own doorstones in trying to prevent it!

他父亲一定要见到她，我一遍遍地发誓，如果那个魔鬼想阻止这个，即使让他死在他自己的门阶前也成！

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Senators can threaten a bill with unlimited debate unless sixty senators vote to prevent it.

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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。

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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。

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Google has built some safeguards into the system to try to prevent it from misfiring.

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However, cooling only partly reduces disability and does not prevent it in all babies.

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The irrational rules governing the process prevent it from producing the market equilibrium price.

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