Some plants are woody in type—an adaptation designed to prevent collapse of the plant tissue when water stress produces wilting.

有些植物是木本植物，这是一种适应性的设计，以防止植物组织萎缩时，水分胁迫产生萎蔫。

Who want to prevent collapse, I will let him collapse before I collapse.

谁想要防得我崩溃，我就会在我崩溃之前让他崩溃。

To prevent collapse of the bridge structure and protect security of superstructure, the anti-seismic capability of bridge piers become particularly important.

为了防止桥梁结构的倒塌和保护桥梁上部结构不发生破坏，桥墩结构的抗震性能凸显的尤为重要。

Therefore, this article analyzes the reasons that generating loess collapse in tunnel excavation and how to prevent collapse in the construction is briefly discussed.

为此，本文分析了在黄土隧道开挖中产生坍塌的原因，对如何在施工中预防坍塌进行了简要的探讨。

Setting reinforced concrete constructional column in multistory masonry building is a important measure to prevent collapse of building in earthquake protection region.

在抗震设防区的多层砖房中设置钢筋混凝土构造柱是房屋防倒塌设计的重要措施，已日益受到重视。

In excavation of shallow buried tunnel, it should be carry out to decrease the footage to prevent collapse, which shall benefit to diminish the settlement of ground surface.

浅埋隧道开挖时应严格控制地表沉陷，减小循环开挖进尺和防止塌方。

Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.

现在，第三个也是更重要的动机出现了：为了防止我们文明的崩溃，这些目标可能是必须要实现的。

If I have understood you correctly, you are proposing to do nothing to prevent the likely collapse of industrial civilisation.

如果我对你的理解正确的话，你在主张不做任何事情去防止可能的工业文明的崩溃。

Congress passed restrictions on financial firms this year designed to prevent a recurrence of the 2008 credit crisis, which almost caused the banking system to collapse.

国会今年通过了对金融机构的数条限制，旨在防止2008年信用危机复发——它几乎造成了银行系统的崩溃。

For decades the goal of seismic engineers has seemed straightforward: Prevent building collapse.

几十年来，地震工程师的目标看起来如此直接：防止建筑物倒塌。

For decades, the goal of seismic engineers has seemed straightforward: Prevent building collapse.

几十年来，地震工程师的目标看起来如此直接：防止建筑物倒塌。

I am fighting to prevent both initial collapse and the repeated catastrophe that follows.

我抗争以防止最初的大崩溃和接踵而至的重复灾难。

Germany's economy is contracting sharply. It requires emergency aid to sustain confidence and prevent a collapse of demand.

德国经济正在迅速收缩，需要紧急手段以维持信心并阻止需求崩溃。

Both beer and shampoo have polar molecules that accumulate at a liquid-gas interface, but the mechanisms that prevent bubble collapse in soap foams or pilsner heads are fundamentally different.

啤酒和洗发水都有极性分子，它们可以在气液分解面上积累，但是阻止气泡破掉的机制，对于肥皂沫和啤酒来说，有着根本上的区别。

The fiscal support would be designed to prevent a short-term confidence collapse from triggering a default.

财政支持的宗旨是防止短期信心崩溃触发违约。

In a bid to prevent economic collapse the public sector has taken on some of the debt burden of the private sector.

为了防止经济崩溃，公共部门已为私营部门承担了一些债务。

We'll prevent Banks from taking on so much risk that they could collapse and threaten our whole economy.

我们将阻止银行冒这么大的险来威胁甚至摧毁我们整个的经济。

Supporters say the aid is needed to prevent the collapse of one or more of the three major automakers, which could cost the industry millions of jobs.

支持者说，有必要帮助这3大汽车制造公司避免其中一家或者多家垮掉，因为那样将会让这个行业失去几百万个工作机会。

Only thus shall we be able to mitigate the sufferings which the coming period will bring to each one of us and to prevent the collapse.

只有这样，我们才能减轻未来时期将给我们每个人带来的伤痛，才能防止突如其来的溃败。

Financial changes are being discussed, and they will come into being and so prevent another collapse because of greed and unacceptable trading practices.

金融界的改变正在讨论，并且它们将尽快成型，以阻止其他因为贪婪与不可接受的交易行为而导致的崩溃。

The evolution establishment is fighting to prevent critics of the evolution model from pointing out gaps and flaws in the model because of an unwarranted fear the model might collapse.

进化论共同体竭力战斗的目的，是防止进化模型的批评家指出进化模型中存在着差距和缺陷，因为他们莫须有的恐惧模型可能崩溃。

Our goal is to prevent the abuse and excess that nearly led to its collapse.

我们的目的是阻止那些导致经济崩溃的滥用和过度行为。

The increase of steel fibre amount can prevent the material from instant collapse, and still maintain quite high bearing capacity when reaches the ultimate load.

掺入钢纤维可以阻止材料发生瞬间崩溃，且在达到极限荷载以后，仍能保持相当高的承载能力。

They settled a deal in an attempt to prevent a collapse in prices later this year.

他们达成协议，试图避免价格在今年晚些时候暴跌。

The Valukas report sheds a huge spotlight on potential accounting and risk management problems at Lehman and is a potential roadmap for regulators looking to prevent another Lehman-like collapse.

沃鲁卡斯报告引起了人们对雷曼可能存在的会计和风险管理问题的强烈关注，监管层或将按图索骥地采取措施，防止又一场雷曼式破产的发生。

The time had come to devise a means to prevent total collapse of their world, and this is where the dark minions are now.

时间已到，他们设计手段，防止他们的世界崩溃，这就是现在的黑手。