- 1預防措施；防備。不是口頭上的「小心」（那較接近 caution），而是你真正先做的那一步。
A precaution is something you do now so that something dangerous or unpleasant is less likely later. You lock the door as a precaution. You take an umbrella as a precaution, even if the sky still looks kind. The word lives in careful advice, medicine, travel, and safety notices; it is serious without being poetic. Though actually, people stretch it a little: “just a precaution” often means “I do not really expect trouble, but I am not willing to look silly if trouble comes.” You usually take precautions (plural) when there are several steps, and you do something as a precaution when there is one extra careful act. It is not the same as a warning. A caution is often the words “be careful”; a precaution is the thing you actually do. There is a rather old, uncommon verb to precaution, meaning to warn or arm someone ahead of time; almost nobody needs it now. The everyday grammar is the noun, with take and as a.
組成From French précaution, from Latin praecautio, from praecavēre, praecautum “to guard against beforehand”: prae “before” + cavēre “be on one’s guard.” Same family as caution.
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- cautionthe unprefixed cousin: care, or a warning to be careful
- precautionarythe adjective: done as a precaution
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precautionnoun/pɹiːˈkɔːʃən/
- 1
Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good.
- his life was saved by precaution
- July 2, 1826, John Henry Newman, The Philosophical Temper, First Enjoined by the Gospel The ancient philosophers treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution.
- 2
A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act.
- to take precautions against risks of accident
- Despite all these precautions, however, severe storms sometimes caused drifts which brought traffic completely to a standstill.
precautionverb/pɹiːˈkɔːʃən/
- 1
To warn or caution beforehand.
- 2
rareTo take precaution against.
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