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

• prevent the occurrence of
  1. Let's avoid a confrontation
  2. head off a confrontation
  3. avert a strike
  Synonym:debarforefendforfendobviatedeflectaverthead offfend offavoidward off

双语例句

• But three economists said the numbers confirmed Chinese banks implemented rollovers on a huge scale to stave off defaults.
  但是，三名经济学家表示，这些数字证实中国各银行实施了巨大规模的滚转操作，以避免面对违约。
• He said tightly limiting movement of patients and careful disposal of bodies can stave off a major medical disaster.
  他还说，通过限制病人随意走动和小心处理好死者遗体就能遏制住疫情大蔓延的发生。
• They want to stave off any attempt to intervene.
  他们想要防止任何进行干涉的企图。
• 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。
• High-yielding varieties, along with subsidized fertilizer and irrigation, have helped India stave off famine for decades.
  这十年里，高产的稻种、政府补贴额化肥和灌溉系统，使印度没有发生过饥荒。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But if foreign earnings have helped US multinationals stave off a fall in profitability, the question is whether the current reliance on the rest of the world is just a cyclical phase or the harbinger of a transformation in corporate America.
  但如果说海外收入帮助美国的跨国企业避免了利润率的下降，那么现在的问题是，当前对世界其它地方的依赖究竟只是一个周期性阶段，还是美国企业界变革的预兆？
• 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。