pre-empt

• vi. 先发制人地叫牌
• vt. （美）先占；先取得

A good training course will pre-empt many problems.

良好的培训课程会防止许多问题产生。

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You can pre-empt pain by taking a painkiller at the first warning sign.

刚出现征兆时，就服用止痛片来预防疼痛。

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They staged a management buyout to pre - empt a takeover bid.

他们筹划买下资方的全部产权以便抢先得到兼并出价的好处.

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The workers took control of the factory in order to pre - empt its sale by the owners.

工人们 先发制人 接管了工厂以阻止厂主将工厂出售.

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来自pre-emption的回构词，引申词义防止，避免。

1. The subject came up during a pre-dinner drink with our guests.

在与客人喝餐前酒的时候，有人提到了这个话题。

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2. Children graduate to the kindergarten, then pre-school, and then school.

孩子们先上幼儿园，然后上学前班，再接着上小学。

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3. Most pre-prepared weight loss products are next to useless.

大多数预制减肥产品几乎都没有什么功效。

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4. These ceremonies were already part of pre-Christian ritual in Mexico.

这些仪式已经成为墨西哥基督教时期以前的宗教仪式的一部分。

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5. For a decade "X" was the pre-eminent punk band in Los Angeles.

10年来，“X”乐队一直都是洛杉矶最杰出的朋克乐队。

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pre-empt (v.)

also preempt, 1830, "secure by pre-emtion," back-formation from pre-emption, originally American English. In the broascasting sense, it is attested from 1965, American English, a euphemism for "cancel." Related: pre-empted; preempted.