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

• So will this stave off insolvency?
  那么这将会阻止希腊破产吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• Unobstructed access for humanitarian assistance is critical to stave off needless death and suffering.
  畅通无阻地提供人道主义援助对于避免不必要的死亡和痛苦至关重要。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。