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商务写作指南：prevent，prohibit和ban的用法 WRONG: The?Lease?does not provide for a period of time during which the?Tenant?isprevented to use?the Premises. 错误用法：租约中并未指明房客不能使用所租房屋的时间界限。 RIGHT: The Lease does not provide for a period of time during which the Tenant isprevented from using?the Premises. 正确用法：租约中并未指明房客不能使用所租房屋的时间界限。 WRONG: The?crew?should be provided with training on how to?prevent from?sea contamination. 错误用法：船员应该接受关于如何防止海洋污染的培训。 RIGHT: The crew should be provided with training on how to?prevent?seacontamination. 正确用法：船员应该接受关于如何防止海洋污染的培训。 Although the verb “prevent” takes the?preposition?“from”, it can also be used with no preposition. The rules are as follows: 尽管动词“prevent”可以带介词“from”，它也可以不用介词。规则如下： “prevent” + something “prevent”+某事 The soldiers prevented the?evacuation. 例句：士兵们阻止撤离。 “prevent” somebody from + -ing “prevent”某人做某事 The soldiers prevented the?refugees?from evacuating. 例句：士兵们阻止难民们撤离。 The word “prohibit” works in exactly the same way: 单词“prohibit”的用法和“prevent”基本一致： “prohibit” + something “prohibit”+某事 The school rules prohibit smoking. 例句：学校规定禁止吸烟。 “prohibit” somebody from + -ing “prohibit”某人做某事 There are no specific?provisions?in the law that would prohibit an employer from summarily?dismissing?an employee due to his/her?misconduct. 例句：法律中没有特定的条文禁止雇主在暑假期间因为员工的表现不佳而将其解雇。 The verb “ban” also works in the same way: 动词“ban”也是类似的用法： The government?banned advertising?of?tobacco?products in 2002. 例句：2002年，政府禁止烟草制品打广告。 The court?banned him from attending?football matches. 法庭禁止他参加足球比赛。 商务写作指南：词组的复数要怎么加？ As you know, in English you generally make a word?plural?by adding an ‘s’ at the end. There seems to be some?confusion, though, about how to make plurals of terms made up of more than one word. For example, do you say bicycles shops or bicycle shops? Do you say power of attorneys or powers of attorney? 众所周知，在英语中要把一个名词变成复数，只要在这个词的后面加上“s”就行了。不过，当一个名词变成了由几个名词组成的词组时，就让人摸不着头脑了。举个例子，如果你要表示自行车商店的复数形式，你是用“bicycles shop”还是“bicycle shops”？在表示授权书的复数时，你是说“power of attorneys