| | to protect / to defend / to guard against / to prevent | HSK 3 |
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| | to prevent / to guard against / to take precautions | HSK 3 |
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| | to prevent / to take precautions against / to protect / to guard against / precautionary / prophylactic | HSK 3 |
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| | to prevent / to block | HSK 4 |
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| | to avert / to prevent / to avoid / to refrain from | HSK 4 |
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| | to prevent and cure / prevention and cure | HSK 5 |
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| | to lock (a door) / to close with a latch / to lock into place / a lock / a latch / to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten) / to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection) / to focus attention on / to target | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to prevent / to avoid / to excuse / to exempt / to relieve / (of a debt) to remit | HSK 7-9 |
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| | classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個｜个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to prevent epidemics | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of a person) to remain in (a place) (due to circumstances that prevent one leaving); to be stranded / (of sth that would typically dissipate, e.g. floodwater, pollutants) to remain; to linger | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be away for the summer holidays / to spend a holiday at a summer resort / to prevent sunstroke | HSK 7-9 |
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| | birchleaf pear (tree) / to stop / to prevent / to restrict | |
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| | to deprive / to withhold / to hold sth back (and prevent it being known) | |
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| | anti-fraud / anti-cheating / preventing wrongdoing | |
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| | to prevent and control (e.g. the spread of a communicable disease) | |
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| | (so as) to avoid / to prevent / (just) in case | |
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| | Since they have come, we should make them comfortable (idiom). Since we're here, take it easy. / Since this is so, we should accept it. / Now we have come, let's stay and take the rough with the smooth. / If you can't do anything to prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it. | |
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| | in advance / before it happens (cf preventative measures) / forestalling | |
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| | (idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand | |
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| | to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret / to silence sb | |
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| | (idiom) virtually impossible to prevent | |
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| | lit. flowing water does not rot, nor a door-hinge rust (idiom) / fig. constant activity prevents decay | |
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| | (idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth | |
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| | to take preventative measures; to guard against accident or disaster | |
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| | to intercept; to prevent the arrival of sth | |
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| | to prevent rust; to resist rusting | |
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| | to prevent tooth decay / anti-caries | |
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| | careful / to prevent | |
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| | lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again | |
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| | to soak seeds (in water to hasten germination, or in a chemical solution to prevent damage from insects etc) | |
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| | to withhold / to hold sth back (and prevent it being known) | |
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| | lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom) / to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents | |
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| | ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out | |
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| | to lie across the railway tracks (to commit suicide or to prevent trains from getting through) | |
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| | lit. to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire) (idiom) / fig. to take preventive measures | |
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| | material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt) | |
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| | to prevent troubles before the event (idiom) / to forestall / to nip sth in the bud | |
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| | lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten / constant activity prevents decay (idiom) | |
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| | to cut off / to interrupt / to prevent access | |
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| | to prevent or treat a disease | |
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| | to avoid suffering / to prevent (sth bad) / to protect against (damage) / immunity (from prosecution) / freedom (from pain, damage etc) / exempt from punishment | |
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| | antipinch (e.g. preventing catching fingers in automatic car windows) | |
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| | prophylactic / preventative / protective | |
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| | to prevent a disaster before the event (idiom); to nip sth in the bud | |
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| | (old) to seal an examinee's name on the examination paper to prevent fraud | |
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| | safety shorts (worn under a skirt or dress to prevent accidental exposure) | |
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| | to prevent heatstroke and reduce temperature | |
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| | to block / to prevent by force | |
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| | to break up or prevent monopolies / anti-monopoly; antitrust | |
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| | lit. to punish a little to prevent a lot (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent large scale repetition | |
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| | submerged piles installed to prevent the passage of boats / (fig.) informer / spy | |
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| | to prevent slipping / anti-slip | |
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| | preventative treatment (medicine) | |
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| | lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will | |
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| | a financial loss may prevent disaster (idiom) | |
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| | paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table) | |
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| | to prevent counterfeiting; anti-counterfeiting | |
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| | to prevent / to combat / to counter | |
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