We try to preclude any possibility of misunderstanding. 我们努力排除任何误解的可能性。
A prior engagement will preclude me from coming. "我因有约在先,不能来了。"
The bad weather precluded me from attending the meeting. 恶劣的天气使我不能出席会议。
Abdication is precluded by the lack of a possible successor. 因为没有可能的继承人, 让位无法实现。
The flood precluded him from coming. 他因洪水不能来了。
The complicated misanthropy which enabled him, his interpreters declared, to love the public and spurn humanity, did not preclude certain trifling investigation of the tenderer emotions. 卓别林的发言人说复杂的厌世情绪使他热爱公众而弃绝人性,但是这并不排除他会涉猎一点点爱情。