barring
barring 英 [ˈbɑ:rɪŋ] 美 [ˈbɑrɪŋ]
prep. 除非；不包括；除…以外 v. 阻拦（bar的ing形式）
名词复数:barrings
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- prep. 除非；不包括；除…以外
- v. 阻拦（bar的ing形式）
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1. barring accidents, we'll be there.
除非发生意外，我们会去那儿的。
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2. I had not so much as kissed a man in seven years, nor dated one in a decade, and had no expectation of doing either, barring a shift of tectonic plates.
我甚至已经七年没有和一个男生接吻，十年间没有约会任何一个男人，当然也没有任何想法去做这些，除非地球板块巨变了吧。
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3. Technological progress will be essential but, barring a breakthrough in nuclear fusion, it will not set us on a path to an energy system purged of fossil fuels.
技术进步将必不可少，但除非在核聚变技术上获得突破，否则我们无法藉此建立一个没有化石燃料的能源体系。
- barring (n.) late 14c., "act of fastening with a bar," verbal noun from bar (v.). Meaning "exclusion" is from 1630s. As a preposition, "excepting, excluding," it is from late 15c. Schoolhouse prank of barring out the teacher was in use by 1728.
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