lest

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例句

Lest anyone miss the point, Patolichev was all smiles when he left the White House.

唯恐有人不理解，帕托利切夫在離開白宮時滿面堆笑。

Lest anyone (should) worry that this will lead to price increases, let me reassure you that it will not.

為避免有人擔心這樣會導致物價上漲，我再次向你們保證絕對不會有這種事。

Let me assure you that this will not lead to price increases lest some of you worry a lot.

我向你們保證這不會導致價格上升，這樣你們就不會擔心太多了。

Lest anyone(should)worry that this will lead to price increases, let me reassure them that it will not.

為避免有人擔心這樣會導致物價上漲，我謹再次向他們保證絕對不會有這種事（發(fā)生）。

But he never did more than linger about the tables and look at the dice as they clattered upon the table, fearful lest he lose if he played.

可他只是在賭桌旁轉(zhuǎn)來轉(zhuǎn)去的，看著色子在賭桌上嘩嘩地撒著，害怕自己賭輸了。

Particularly, I was more cautious of firing my gun, lest any of them, being on the island, should happen to hear of it.

特別在放槍的時候，我更是小心翼翼，生怕島上有什么人碰巧聽見槍聲。

Lest you think I invented this myself, notice that the original SwingSet code includes such a call.

以免您認為這是我自己發(fā)明的，請注意最初的SwingSet代碼包括這樣一個調(diào)用。

You may want to decide, lest you get corralled into a group outing when it's the last thing you want -- or miss out on some fun.

你希望能決定，免得只能固定進一個你不喜歡的圈子里，失去很多快樂。

If ever you come to your country, be advised, you should not venture again into lands that you know not, lest you never should return.

倘若你們回到貴國，請記取我一言：切莫再到異國他鄉(xiāng)去涉險獵奇，否則將有去無回。

Chew your words, lest you choke You better watch your mouth Wash it out with soap.

咀嚼你的話，免得你嗆更好，你看你的嘴，用肥皂。

Businesses' worst excesses must be restrained lest the public turn against the American capitalist system, Roosevelt and his allies argued.

羅斯福及其同盟者主張必須限制企業(yè)最過分的無節(jié)制行為，以免公眾轉(zhuǎn)而反對美國的資本主義制度。

He did not tell his father about the exam result lest he get mad at him.

他沒把考試結(jié)果告訴父親，以免父親對他發(fā)火。

Heb. 4: 1 Let us fear therefore, lest, a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.

來四1所以，我們應當畏懼，免得那進入他安息的應許，雖然留給我們，你們中間卻有人像是趕不上了。

Ustane, by the way, was also blindfolded, I do not know why, unless it was from fear lest she should impart the secrets of the route to us.

順便提一句，不知道為什么尤斯坦也被蒙上了眼睛，大概是怕她會把秘密路線泄露給我們吧。

He took his umbrella with him lest it rain.

他帶了雨傘，以防下雨。

He took an umbrella with him lest it should rain.

他帶上雨傘以免下雨。

She said in the height of her trauma, she took pictures with the camera on her mobile phone, lest people should not believe her later.

她說她用手機拍攝了她遭受嚴重外傷的照片，以免之后人們不相信她。

Ask her to lengthen the leash, lest you start seeing her as a restraint to happiness rather than the source of it.

建議他把鏈條放長一點，免得你把它看做是幸福的一種約束力而非源泉。

You even issued me a user name and a password so secret it had to be hidden in a "safe place" lest someone purloin it.

你們甚至給我指定了用戶名和密碼，密碼保密性真高，我還得將之藏在“安全的地方”，以防他人竊取。

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

我們既蒙留下，有進入他安息的應許，就當畏懼，免得我們（原文是你們）中間或有人似乎是趕不上了。

Perhaps it was because she was so tender and good that Pen was terrified lest his mother should know of his sins.

也許正是因為他的母親這么溫柔善良，潘一直怕她得知他干的壞事。

He would be avoided, and his village would never permit him to marry, lest he father others like himself.

沒有人會理睬他，他的村子也永遠不許他結(jié)婚，因為要不然他會教養(yǎng)出象他自己那樣的孩子。

If ever you come to your country, be advised, you should not venture again into lands that you know not, lest you never should return.

倘若你們回到貴國，請記取我一言：切莫再到異國他鄉(xiāng)去涉險獵奇，否則將有去無回。

He worried lest he should be losing the drive and energy which had never failed him before.

他擔心自己會失去以前一向充沛的干勁和精力。

A fire not quenched demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it would consume.

一堆未熄滅的火須得大家始終小心戒備，防止它燃成熊熊火焰，否則，它不僅不能使人取暖，而會燒毀一切。

The security extended even to the food; they had replaced the caterer lest our food be tampered with.

保安措施甚到涉及于食物：撤換了承辦筵席的人，以防他在食物里做手腳。

Don't be too eager in pursuing the person lest you create too high expectations.

不要過于急切追求此人，免得你對他期望過多。

Close the window quickly lest the raindrops (should) slant in.

快關(guān)窗戶，別讓雨點潲進來。

He tried to conceal the bad news from his wife , lest she worried .

他盡量對他的妻子隱瞞這個壞消息，以免她擔心。

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

總要趁著還有今日，天天彼此相勸，免得你們中間，有人被罪迷惑，心里就剛硬了。

During that case the paper admitted it had not sought comment from him prior to publication, lest he seek a gagging order.

那起案子中，未免他尋求言論禁止令，報紙一方承認未能事前向莫斯利征求意見。

and her chief anxiety was lest Mansfield should not satisfy the habits of a young woman who had been mostly used to London.

她主要擔心的是，一個在倫敦待慣了的年輕女士來曼斯菲爾德就怕過不慣。

Moreover he must enjoy a good reputation among the outsiders, lest people speak evil about him and he fall into the snare of the devil.

并且在外人中也必須有好聲望，怕他遭人誹謗，落入魔鬼的羅網(wǎng)。

She had had a great doubt and terror lest Arthur should not know her, but that pang was spared to her, in part at least.

她本來毫無把握，提心吊膽，怕亞瑟認不出她，結(jié)果這種憂慮是多余的，至少并不那么嚴重。

There I will provide for you, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty; for there are still five years of famine.

我要在那里奉養(yǎng)你；因為還有五年的饑荒，免得你和你的眷屬，并一切所有的，都敗落了。

To be truly secure, the reports must be kept offline in some sort of secure location, lest the hacker tamper with the report.

要真正安全的，報告必須保持在安全的位置某種離線的，以免黑客篡改的報告。

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them, lest you be found to be even fighters against God.

若是出于神，你們就不能毀壞他們，恐怕你們倒要顯為是攻擊神了。

He took his raincoat with him lest it should rain.

他帶了雨衣，怕下雨。

Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.

我覺得有必要寫給你幾句話，以免今后再沒機會給你寫信。這樣，在我離去的時候，信就會出現(xiàn)在你眼前。

I called him, lest he did not know winter vacation this year's program!

我給他打了個電話，免得他不知道今年寒假的計劃！

Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

不可辱沒你的女兒，使她為娼妓，恐怕地上的人專向淫亂，地就滿了大惡。

in fact, it had become quite a habit with me of not being too attentive to women lest they come toppling, bloodripe, into my cold lap.

實際上，我幾乎養(yǎng)成了不過意留心婦人的習慣，以免她們飄飄然、滿面通紅地坐到我冰冷的腿上。

If your priority, then, is to get him the help he seems to need, tread very carefully lest you push him further back into silence.

如果你的首要任務是要提供給他必要的幫助，你一定要小心對待他，以免把他再一次推向沉默。

hence with us and heretics the very words ought not to be in common, lest we seem to countenance their error.

故此，我們和異端所使用的文字不應該一致，免得我們像是在支持他們的錯誤。

He would be avoided, and his village would never permit him to marry, lest he father others like himself.

沒有人會理睬他，他的村子也永遠不許他結(jié)婚，因為要不然他會教養(yǎng)出象他自己那樣的孩子。

eg. People were asked to leave the building at once lest the wall should collapse.

人們被告知立刻離開這幢大樓惟恐墻壁倒塌。

Darcy only smiled, and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself again.

達西只笑了一下，接著大伙兒都沉默了一陣子，這時候伊麗莎白很是著急，怕她母親又要出丑。

He took a raincoat with him lest it should rain .

他帶上了雨衣以防下雨。