| 词组 | preclude |
| 释义 | preclude When preclude is used with a preposition, it is usually from: • ... a person is precluded from accepting legal assistance from a friend —E. Maitland Woolf, Irish Digest, March 1953 • Rover even attempted to preclude Lattimore's attorneys from opposing the affidavit of bias —Judge Luther W. Youngdahl, New Republic, 1 Nov. 1954 • ... the discrimination that still precludes Catholics from senior ... posts in civic and social life —Eric Bourne, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sept. 1979 • ... the pains Disney often took to preclude his cartoons and live-action films from consideration as serious art —Daniel Menaker, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 28 Nov. 1976 Occasionally, preclude has been used with to: • But there were many doors that he didn't open. Whole sections seemed precluded to him —Arturo Vivante, New Yorker, 11 May 1963 • He is not ... an equally good novelist, though of course nothing is precluded to a man of his abilities —Stanley Kauffmann, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 4 Apr. 1976 In another relation preclude may be followed with by: • Monotony was precluded by the use of decorative pieces, color, and light —American Guide Series: Michigan, 1941 |
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