英语释义

• prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;

  "Let's avoid a confrontation"

  "head off a confrontation"

  "avert a strike"

片语

shun(Shun)人名；(日)春(姓)

avoid避免；避开，躲避；消除

wait等待；耽搁；伺候用餐

escape逃跑；逃亡；逃走；逃跑工具或方法；野生种；泄漏

英汉例句

• it is worth paying a high price to stave off a liquidity crisis over new year: better that weak banks are able to borrow at the same rates as strong ones than that they are not able to borrow at all.

  为了避免在新的一年出现流动性危机，付出如此高昂的代价是完全值得的：对弱小的银行来说，能够以与强大的银行相同的利率借款，比完全借不到不知好上多少。

• take the case of somalia: america sent troops there in 1992 to help the united nations stave off a humanitarian catastrophe, but the armed chaos of mogadishu soon drove it out.

  以索马里为例，1992年，为了帮助联合国防止人道主义灾难，美国向索马里派军，然而摩加迪沙全副武装的暴民很快将美军赶了出来。

• 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癡呆癥，纽约的比亚韦斯托克说。

• if you’re doing stimulating activities before bed, you’ll be able to stay up later and stave off sleepiness for a while.

  如果你在睡觉前做一些很刺激的活动，你就会（译者加：因为太兴奋而）睡地更晚，并且在睡觉前感觉不到瞌睡。

• this encourages time-wasting lawsuits as a ploy to stave off penalties from broken contracts or other infringements.

  这一现象也鼓励了那些浪费时间的诉讼成为了一种策略，以避开那些违反合同或其他条款的惩罚。

• a recent survey by mintel, a market-research company, concluded that 37% of women under the age of 34 use products intended to stave off signs of ageing—and they spend more as the years go by.

  市场研究公司「明特尔」最近进行的一项调查表明，有37%的34岁以下女性，为了消除岁月留下的痕迹使用美容产品，而且用在这方面的花费每年都在增加。

• the two boys, young and unlettered, lingered only long enough to earn sufficient money to stave off hunger and to continue what must have seemed an endless journey.

  这两个胸无点墨的年轻人，在每一处只是作短暂的逗留，以赚取足够的钱充饑，并继续这段几乎看不到终点的旅程。

• 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。

• that will not make marta any more effective, but it may stave off some of the service cuts it faces.

  尽管这将不会再使marta有效创收，marta面临着要减少一些服务项目，而这项法案能暂时避开这种裁减。

• 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。

• today, it is shifting social spending to the neglected interior, to boost consumption and to stave off a social explosion.

  今天，中国正将社会开支向被忽视的内陆地区转移，从而提升消费、避免社会崩溃。

• throughout the system there would be ways of warming things up and injecting antifreeze to stave off the formation of icelike methane hydrates.

  整个系统都要有介质加热和注入防冻液的途径，以避免形成类似冰的甲烷水合物（译者注，即可燃冰）。

• 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。

• the $700 billion bail-out after lehman’s collapse was no genuine attempt to stave off depression, but a financial coup d’état, staged by big banks.

  雷曼兄弟倒闭后，7000亿美元用于救市，而实质上这并不是避开经济衰退的有效途径，但金融政变，却在大银行中上演。

• dr prager said there were several simple steps which could stave off computer face such as regular screen breaks and stretching the neck muscles.

  普拉杰医生说，有几种简单的方法可以延缓「电脑脸」的到来，诸如定期离开电脑屏幕休息一下，伸展颈部肌肉。

• 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。

• although the country may be able to stave off shortages, food prices are surging, hitting poor people especially hard.

  虽然印度也许可以避开粮食短缺的问题，但是粮食价格依然大幅上涨，对贫穷人口的生计造成特别严重的打击。

• if the government tries to stave off that adjustment by massive fiscal means, it might delay the further interest-rate cuts that financial markets expect in coming months.

  如果政府试图通过使用大量的财政手段来延缓这种调整，未来几个月金融市场所期待的利率下调或许会延迟。

• 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。

• 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。

• you can stave off rapid aging to your muscles, joints, and tendons by practicing exercises that extend your range of motion; some options include tai chi, qigong and yoga.

  你能通过扩展你的关节活动度锻炼来避免肌肉、关节和肌腱的加速衰老；一些包括太极、气功和瑜伽的选择。

• while studying at vanderbilt university, she also had some psychotic episodes, but courses in philosophy seemed to stave off the episodes to some degree.

  当她在范德比尔特大学求学时，她也有已经精神病发作，但是哲学课程似乎使我一定程度上避免了发作期。

• in the process, they hope eventually to give consumers more personalized advice about what to eat and drink to stave off heart disease, cancer and other chronic conditions of aging.

  通过这一研究，他们希望最终能 为消费者提供一些更个性化的建议，即应如何健康饮食以避免和延缓心脏疾病、癌癥和其他老年慢性病。

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