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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.
    1. 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。
    2. 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。

英英释义

verb

双语例句

  • It was impossible to stave off disaster.
    想避免灾难是不可能的。
  • I went on desperately reading to her-reading my own poems-anybody's poems-to stave off conversation.
    我先是拼命地念诗给她听念我自己的诗还念别人的诗避免谈话。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • But this no longer seems enough to stave off some sort of crisis.
    但这么做似乎已不足以避免某种危机的到来。
  • Once we caught him dozing off in class. A nap will stave off fatigue.
    有一次我们发现他在上课时打盹。打个盹会消除疲乏。
  • She is determined to stave off the man who wanted to abandon her when she was in trouble.
    她决心甩掉那个在她陷入困境时想抛弃她的那个人。
  • In Fenghua, government officials are trying to stave off a default by a local developer.
    在奉化,当地政府官员正在试图避免一家本地开发商出现债务违约。
  • The lost explorers ate birds'eggs to stave off starvation.
    为了避免饿死,那些迷路的勘探人员吃鸟蛋充饥。