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1·"That is not Michael," she said quickly, lest a judgment should fall on her.

“那不是迈克尔。”她赶快说，以免判决落在她身上。

2·Senators and representatives use private elevators, lest they have to queue with their constituents.

参议员和众议员会使用私人电梯，以免他们要和选民一起排队。

3·Beware that do not boil mung beanl too rotten, lest make organic acids and vitamin destruction, reduce heat clearing and detoxicating effect.

要注意的是，绿豆不宜煮得过烂，以免使有机酸和维生素遭到破坏，降低清热解毒功效。

4·Area 51 staff had to regularly interrupt such tests and hurry prototypes into "hoot-and-scoot sheds", lest they are detected by Soviet spy satellites.

51区的工作人员不得不经常中断这种测试，匆忙地将这些样机送到“紧急藏身处”，以免它们被苏联间谍卫星发现。

5·We gave them bread, lest they should starve.

我们给他们面包，以免他们饿死。

1·Prithee master thy tongue, lest we be all beaten till we die!

请你管好你的舌头，免得我们都挨打，直到死！

2·For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

因为我还有五个弟兄。他可以对他们作见证，免得他们也来到这痛苦的地方。

3·Boil the oil soiled by the coil in the toilet lest it spoil.

把被盥洗室里的线圈弄脏的油煮开，免得它变质。

4·Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

我们既蒙留下有进入他安息的应许，就当畏惧，免得我们中间，(我们原文作你们)或有人似乎是赶不上了。

5·I pass over many other things peculiar to this island, lest I should weary you.

我略过这个岛上很多奇怪的事情，免得我让你厌烦。

1·Hook felt a gloomy desire to make his dying speech, lest presently there should be no time for it.

胡克有一种沮丧的欲望，想发表他的临终遗言，唯恐马上就没有时间了。

2·I should leave now lest I take something away from you!

我只能立即离开，唯恐从你之身拿取片物！

3·It is your duty, lest you be ostracized by the better half of society.

这是你的责任。唯恐你被更好的一半社会放逐。

4·There, trembling lest the aunt should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to breathe, he gazed at his child.

他躲在一根石柱后面，心惊胆战，唯恐那位姑奶奶回转头来，所以不动也不敢呼吸，眼睛盯着那孩子。

5·And lest you think that cloaking applies only to the intangible world, 2008 even brought a plan for using cloaking techniques to protect shorelines from giant incoming waves.

科学家们似乎唯恐人们认为它仅适用于虚拟世界，因此他们在2008年甚至制定一项计划，打算利用这种技术保护海岸线免受潮汐冲击。

1·If they have a story about a kitten caught in a tree, you endure it, lest you miss a minute of something that is actually relevant to you.

即使是一个在树上被抓的小猫的小事，你却都要忍受着看完这些，生怕错过了一点跟你有关的事情。

2·I dared not look toward the land lest my heart should fail me.

我一直不敢朝陆地方向看，生怕会因此而失去勇气。

3·I was sure that I had found at last the one true cosmopolite since Adam, and I listened to his worldwide discourse fearful lest I should discover in it the local note of the mere globe-trotter.

当时，我对自己发现了人类自亚当以来第一个真正的世界公民确定不疑，我聆听着他关于整个世界的高谈阔论，生怕自己会发现他只是带有环球旅行者的地方口音。

4·Lest you should think he never could recapture.

生怕你以为他永远不会重现。

5·He was greatly agitated lest at the first station across the border or at the depot in New York there should be waiting for him an officer of the law.

他焦虑万分，生怕在越过国境线的第一站，或者是在纽约火车站，会有一个执法官在等着他。

1·I was afraid to open the door lest he should follow me.

我当时害怕打开那个门惟恐他跟踪我。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The old refiner never leaves his crucible, but sits down by it, lest there should be one excessive degree of heat to mar the metal.

老练的化炼师是一直坐在坩埚旁边，从不走开的，他惟恐热度一高就会叫金属受损。

3·Each donor exploits the best people to ensure the success of its own projects, lest another donor exploit them first.

每个捐助者都要利用社会上层人士以确保自身项目的成功，惟恐被别人占先。

4·The boy spoke in whisper lest Mr. Hall would blame him.

男孩很小声说话，惟恐霍尔先生责怪他。

5·I closed the Windows lest it should rain.

我关上窗户惟恐下雨。