stave off
英 [steɪv ɒf]
美 [steɪv ɔːf]
推迟; 暂时避开
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 推迟;暂时避开
If youstave offsomething bad, or if youstaveitoff, you succeed in stopping it happening for a while.- In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution...
为了竭力避免败局,他勉强答应要对宪法进行大规模修改。 - But the reality of discovery was a different matter, and he did all he could to stave it off.
但所发现的实际情况完全是另一回事,所以他只好尽自己所能暂缓其发生。
- In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution...
英英释义
verb
- prevent the occurrence of
- Let's avoid a confrontation
- head off a confrontation
- avert a strike
双语例句
- It was impossible to stave off disaster.
想避免灾难是不可能的。 - Instead, they want budget cuts to lower risk premiums and stave off disruptive debt restructurings.
相反,它们希望通过削减预算来降低风险溢价,并避免破坏性的债务重组。 - Dieting to be thin is on its own not enough to stave off diabetes.
研究人员说,节食本身不足以延缓糖尿病。 - To stave off disaster we could look only to them.
要阻挡灾难来临,我们只能指望他们了。 - WASHINGTON ( Reuters)-Good news for aging hippies: smoking pot may stave off Alzheimer's disease.
华盛顿(路透社)-对那些老龄的嬉皮士是个好消息,吸食大麻可能延缓老年痴呆的病程。 - Just think back to 2008, when our officials failed to stave off a come-to-jesus-moment on Wall Street.
不妨回想2008年,当时美国官员们也未能令华尔街摆脱末日审判。 - They want to stave off any attempt to intervene.
他们想要防止任何进行干涉的企图。 - Second, he did what was necessary to stave off a global depression.
其次,奥巴马为防止全球陷入萧条采取了必要的做法。 - Employers have cut spending on business travel and client entertaining as they look for other ways of reducing costs to stave off damaging redundancies, a study reveals on Monday.
最近公布的一份研究报告显示,随着各雇主寻求其它削减成本的方式,以规避有破坏性的裁员,他们已减少了商务旅行和客户招待方面的支出。 - The first priority of the rebels-turned-rulers must be physical security to stave off anarchy and looting.
从反政府武装转型来的统治者们的首要任务就是确保人身安全,防止混乱和劫掠。