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

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

In order to keep the currency convertible they had to keep interest rates high to prevent people from demanding the gold.

为了保持货币的转换性,他们不得不将利率提高,以防人们向他们索求金子的兑换。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The agreement sets targets to prevent the Earth's average temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

You would have this initial response, now that initial response might be too slow to prevent you from getting chickenpox.

你对水痘病毒产生初始应答,这种初始应答可能,过于缓慢,无法预防水痘

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

One was the ability of the vaccine to prevent infections from the human immunodeficiency virus, better known as H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

You got to assign a dollar value to know whether you want to prevent those deaths by banning the use of cell phones in cars.

你必须用金钱来衡量,是否需要禁止司机使用手机,来避免此类事件发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Perhaps the best way to prevent getting ripped off in business is to not try to get rich quickly.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Similarly,I believe that if we wish to prevent drug abuse in teenagers who grow up in a neighborhood that puts them at risk, the effective prevention is not remedial.

同样，如果我们要防止,青少年受不良的社会环境影响,而滥用药物的情况，但预防的效果不佳。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Experts say the best way to prevent the diseases carried by mosquitoes is not to be bitten by one.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

I'm talking about trying to prevent suffering and prompt for people who don't want to going on living themselves or in the case of babies allowing parents to make that judgment for themselves and their family.

我所做的是为了防止痛苦,或是帮助那些不愿,活下去的人们,或是让上述例子中的孩子的父母,能够作出决定，为他们自己，也为这个家庭。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

One Confederate officer, trying to prevent his troops from moving back, pointed to a group led by General T.J.Jackson of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

And which, in the case of England, the civil war was largely fought, to a great extent anyway, trying to prevent the English monarchy from taking on characteristics of those emerging absolute states on the continent.

其中之一是英国,［1648年的英国内战称之为 "英国资产阶级革命"］,这在很大程度上,是为了阻止英国的君主制,转变为欧洲大陆上新兴的绝对主义

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Farmers may not be able to prevent natural disasters, but they can at least try their best to reduce losses.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

It's not merely a negative thing the way I think modern ideas about law, as for instance, represented in the American Constitution are, which is to say, its function is to prevent wrong doing, to punish wrong doing.

我的理解是,这里的法律,不仅仅指当今的法律条款,比如美国宪法所代表的那些内容,也就是,行使防范错误行为,以及惩罚错误行为的职能

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But in the late sixties he went to report on the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

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

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

That goes back to that idea of sort of discipline coding. It's easy to have assumptions about what you think are going to come into the program when you writ it. If you really know what they are use them as search, but if you think there's going to be some flexibility, you want to prevent the user getting trapped in a bad spot, and exceptions as a consequence are a good thing to use.

这又回到了规范编码的想法上来了,在你写代码的时候考虑,什么会进入你的代码的思考是简单的,如果你真的知道,他们是用他们来做搜索的,而你希望有一定的灵活性，你想要阻止用户,陷入一个艰难的境地,那么异常是非常实用的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

To prevent that from happening, American Secretary of State John Hay proposed what became known as the "Open Door" policy.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Those doctors would still not be able to improve school performance of the kids with learning disabilities and they would still not be able to prevent cognitive impairment and loss of memory in older adults because at this point we don't really understand enough about learning To know which neurons and synapses within a circuit would need to be tinkered with.

他恐怕还是改变不了有学习障碍的孩子们的表现,阻挡不了老年人的认知功能损害和记忆力的衰退,因为我们对这一学科的确知之甚少,不知道知道回路中的到底是哪些神经元和神经突触需要修复。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Scientists say the auxin has an indirect effect on buds on the side of the stem to prevent branching.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

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

The project also works to prevent languages from dying out by identifying the most threatened areas where languages are disappearing.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

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

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

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

A doctor examined Brown. He reported that Brown's wounds were not serious enough to prevent the trial from starting.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

They merely were there in a time of emergency to prevent hopefully a banking crisis.

它们只是在危急时刻,阻止一个银行业危机的发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In other words, lower the amount insured below the actual value of the house to prevent moral hazard.

换句话说，将房屋的保险价值低估于其实际价值,以此来防范道德风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选