stave off

英美

阻挡,延缓,赶走,击退

stabbed adj.刺中的；中伤的；刺穿的动词stab的过去式和过去分词形式.
stabber n.刺戳的东西；锥子；暗杀者
stabbing adj.刺伤的；刺痛的动词stab的现在分词.
stabilify vt.使稳定；使稳固；使可靠
stabilise v.(使)稳定=stabilize(美).

Verb:

prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;
"Let's avoid a confrontation"
"head off a confrontation"
"avert a strike"

1. There's no sense of straining to stay awake or to stave off sleep.: 并没有那种持续的竭力保持清醒，从而延缓睡觉的感觉，我根本就没有睡意。

2. It won't be pretty, but it could stave off some much uglier alternatives.: 这种做法不见得漂亮，但可以避免一些非常讨厌的选择。

3. This will clean the blade, stave off rusting, and add weeks of shaving life.: 这将会清洁刀片、防止生锈，延长几周使用寿命。

4. This week's euphoria assumed policymakers would manage to stave off economic trouble.: 那些本周陶醉在兴奋中的人估计政策制定人能避开经济困境。

5. Some companies are coming up with creative solutions to stave off such predicaments.: 一些公司则出台了一些很富有创意性的方法来设法阻止这些事情的发生。

6. There's no sense of straining to stay awake or to stave off sleep. I'm simply not sleepy.: 并没有那种持续的竭力保持清醒，从而延缓睡觉的感觉，我根本就没有睡意。

7. The Guiyang Evening News said the miners chewed coal to stave off their hunger pangs.: 贵阳晚间新闻称，此三人通过咀嚼煤矿矿渣消除饥饿感。

8. The body's weakened immune system and its inability to stave off infections are to blame.: 身体免疫系统的衰弱和自身提抗力的无效是患病的主要原因。

9. Acquiring patents is often used as a defense tactic to stave off lawsuits from competitors.: 收购专利技术经常被用来当作一种防守策略从而躲避竞争对手的诉讼。

10. Though there were failures, too, it seemed as if good management could stave off the tragedy.: 虽然也有一些失败的例子，但是看起来好的管理可以避免悲剧发生。

11. It WAS Greece that let public spending rip, lied about it and is now trying to stave off default.: 希腊造成了公共开支裂口，并隐瞒真相，现在正试图避面债务拖欠。

12. If 7 to 8 per cent growth is better, it will still not stave off a sharp increase in unemployment.: 如果说7%至8%的增长会好些，但依然不能解决失业率快速增长的问题。

13. But one of Italy's biggest property companies, Risanamento, is fighting to stave off its creditors.: 不过，意大利最大的地产公司之一的Risanamento正想尽办法逃避其债主们。

14. Or he may have thought that he had done enough to stave off threats to his rule and could go into reverse.: 或者他可能已经想到他之前所做的足以避开那些威胁他统治的危险并开始出现转机。

15. But nor did the West offer Russia a Marshall Plan to stave off a catastrophic collapse in living standards.: 但西方也没有向俄罗斯提供一个马歇尔救援计划来推迟其生活水平灾难性的崩溃。

16. The survey reveals the extent to which workers have engaged with employers to stave off job losses and company closures.: 这项调查揭示了工人在避免雇主失去工作岗位和企业倒闭的努力中的参与程度。

17. Even if you don't learn a second language until after middle age, it can still help stave off dementia, York's Bialystok said.: 即使中年后才学习第二种语言，它仍然可以帮助延缓老年痴呆症，纽约的比亚韦斯托克说。

18. The rules against firing that stave off sharp rises in unemployment may mean that fewer jobs are created in new industries.: 防止裁员的原则，即避免失业人口增长的原则，可能意味着在新的行业中只有很少的工作机会。

19. Since this wasn't a meal, but rather like a late afernoon snack meant to stave off hunger, finger foods were the common fare.: 由于这不是一顿饭，而更像是一顿傍晚时分为避免饥饿而食用的小吃，因此摆放的食物通常都是可以用手拿着吃的。

20. In order to stave off a disaster and get Haiti on its feet again, the world needs to respond in rapid and coordinated fashion.: 想消除灾难带来的的影响，并帮助海地恢复正常，我们需要全世界做出迅速而协调的回应。

21. To stave off defeat, they held tens of thousands of civilians as human shields in their shrinking corner of northern Sri Lanka.: 为了延迟自己的战败，他们在南斯里兰卡自己那日渐缩小的地盘上，携数万平民为人盾。

22. It could also be an attempt to stave off speculative capital inflows by showing that renminbi appreciation is not a one-way bet.: 此举也可能意在阻挡投机资金流入，其方式就是宣示：押注人民币升值并非稳赚不赔。

23. This one managed to stave off mold for a year and this one's been around the country in this lady's purse for more than four years.: 译者注还有这个一年也没有发霉的儿童“快乐套餐”。还有个汉堡，它四年前被遗忘在一位女士的提包里，四年里，这位女士曾带着这个提包在美国各处跑。

24. Carmakers flooded the market with unprofitable cars in the good times in an effort to stave off the closure of uneconomic factories.: 汽车制造商在好的时代为了将没有效率的竞争者赶出市场，生产了大量的毫无利润可言的汽车。

25. There can be little doubt Mr. Blankfein was looking after his firm, while Paulson &Co. were looking to stave off an economic meltdown.: 布兰克费恩关心的是他的公司，而鲍尔森那帮人则是想阻止经济崩溃，这是毋庸置疑的。

26. There can be little doubt Mr. Blankfein was looking after his firm, while Paulson &Co. were looking to stave off an economic meltdown.: 布兰克费恩关心的是他的公司，而鲍尔森那帮人则是想阻止经济崩溃，这是毋庸置疑的。

The fate of the billion-dollar Taj Mahal in Atlantic City hung in the balance late last night as Donald Trump raced to clinch a deal with bondholders aimed at staving off an involuntary bankruptcy for his giant casino hotel.
大西洋城价值十亿元的泰姬玛哈的命运吉凶未卜。昨天深夜特朗普分秒必争地与债权人达成协议，以解除他规模庞大的赌博酒店被迫破产的厄运。
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。

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【近义词】

ward 病房
obviate 排除
avoid 避免
fend off 挡开
forfend 防止
head off 阻止(阻拦
deflect 使偏斜
forefend 避开(保护
debar 排除在外
ward off 防止
avert 转开

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