lest
美 [lest]英 [lest]
- conj.〈正式〉以免
lestlest
1.免得；以免in order to prevent sth from happening
2.（引出产生某种情感的原因）唯恐，担心used to introduce the reason for the particular emotion mentioned
1
Lest anyone miss the point, Patolichev was all smiles when he left the White House.
唯恐有人不理解，帕托利切夫在离开白宫时满面堆笑。
2
Lest anyone (should) worry that this will lead to price increases, let me reassure you that it will not.
为避免有人担心这样会导致物价上涨，我再次向你们保证绝对不会有这种事。
3
Let me assure you that this will not lead to price increases lest some of you worry a lot.
我向你们保证这不会导致价格上升，这样你们就不会担心太多了。
4
Lest anyone(should)worry that this will lead to price increases, let me reassure them that it will not.
为避免有人担心这样会导致物价上涨，我谨再次向他们保证绝对不会有这种事（发生）。
5
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.
可他只是在赌桌旁转来转去的，看着色子在赌桌上哗哗地撒着，害怕自己赌输了。
6
Particularly, I was more cautious of firing my gun, lest any of them, being on the island, should happen to hear of it.
特别在放枪的时候，我更是小心翼翼，生怕岛上有什么人碰巧听见枪声。
7
Lest you think I invented this myself, notice that the original SwingSet code includes such a call.
以免您认为这是我自己发明的，请注意最初的SwingSet代码包括这样一个调用。
8
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.
你希望能决定，免得只能固定进一个你不喜欢的圈子里，失去很多快乐。
9
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.
倘若你们回到贵国，请记取我一言：切莫再到异国他乡去涉险猎奇，否则将有去无回。
10
Chew your words, lest you choke You better watch your mouth Wash it out with soap.
咀嚼你的话，免得你呛更好，你看你的嘴，用肥皂。
11
Businesses' worst excesses must be restrained lest the public turn against the American capitalist system, Roosevelt and his allies argued.
罗斯福及其同盟者主张必须限制企业最过分的无节制行为，以免公众转而反对美国的资本主义制度。
12
He did not tell his father about the exam result lest he get mad at him.
他没把考试结果告诉父亲，以免父亲对他发火。
13
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.
来四1所以，我们应当畏惧，免得那进入他安息的应许，虽然留给我们，你们中间却有人像是赶不上了。
14
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.
顺便提一句，不知道为什么尤斯坦也被蒙上了眼睛，大概是怕她会把秘密路线泄露给我们吧。
15
He took his umbrella with him lest it rain.
他带了雨伞，以防下雨。
16
He took an umbrella with him lest it should rain.
他带上雨伞以免下雨。
17
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.
她说她用手机拍摄了她遭受严重外伤的照片，以免之后人们不相信她。
18
Ask her to lengthen the leash, lest you start seeing her as a restraint to happiness rather than the source of it.
建议他把链条放长一点，免得你把它看做是幸福的一种约束力而非源泉。
19
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.
你们甚至给我指定了用户名和密码，密码保密性真高，我还得将之藏在“安全的地方”，以防他人窃取。
20
Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
我们既蒙留下，有进入他安息的应许，就当畏惧，免得我们（原文是你们）中间或有人似乎是赶不上了。
21
He tried to conceal the bad news from his wife , lest she worried .
他尽量对他的妻子隐瞒这个坏消息，以免她担心。
22
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
总要趁着还有今日，天天彼此相劝，免得你们中间，有人被罪迷惑，心里就刚硬了。
23
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，未免他寻求言论禁止令，报纸一方承认未能事前向莫斯利征求意见。
24
and her chief anxiety was lest Mansfield should not satisfy the habits of a young woman who had been mostly used to London.
她主要担心的是，一个在伦敦待惯了的年轻女士来曼斯菲尔德就怕过不惯。
25
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.
并且在外人中也必须有好声望，怕他遭人诽谤，落入魔鬼的罗网。
26
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.
她本来毫无把握，提心吊胆，怕亚瑟认不出她，结果这种忧虑是多余的，至少并不那么严重。
27
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.
我要在那里奉养你；因为还有五年的饥荒，免得你和你的眷属，并一切所有的，都败落了。
28
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，报告必须保持在安全的位置某种离线的，以免黑客篡改的报告。
29
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，你们就不能毁坏他们，恐怕你们倒要显为是攻击神了。
30
He took his raincoat with him lest it should rain.
他带了雨衣，怕下雨。