| 单词 | preventable |
| 释义 | preventable (once / 13281 pages) adj Anything that's preventable can be avoided or stopped in its tracks. A preventable disease is one that you can easily be vaccinated against. A lot of theft is preventable, if you remember to lock your car doors. Head injuries are mostly preventable too, if you wear a helmet when you ride your bike. Unless you're completely lost in your math class, bad grades on quizzes are preventable too; you just need to do your homework and study. When you prevent something, you keep it from happening. The Latin root is praevenire, "come before, anticipate, or hinder." WORD FAMILYpreventable: unpreventable+/prevent: preventable, preventative, prevented, preventing, prevention, preventive, prevents/preventative: preventatives/prevention: preventions/preventive: preventively, preventives USAGE EXAMPLESAs the number of vehicles with human operators falls, so too will the preventable fatalities. Slate(Dec 30, 2016) Gen. John Nichols says an Army investigative team from Fort Rucker, Alabama, will work to determine what happened and if Wednesday afternoon’s crash was preventable. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) "You see this rise in chronic disease spending -- much of it is potentially preventable." Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) adj capable of being prevented "conscious of preventable human suffering"- A.L.Guerard Ant unpreventable not preventable |
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