英语释义

1. any of the narrow strips of wood or narrow iron plates placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel (such as a barrel) or structure

2. staff entry 1 sense 1

3. staff entry 1 sense 3

4. stanza sense 1

5. to smash a hole in
stove in the boat also to crush or break inward
staved in several ribs

6. to break in the staves of (a cask)

7. to drive or thrust away

8. to walk or move rapidly

9. to become stove in —used of a boat or ship

10. one of the narrow strips of wood that form the sides of a barrel

11. a long wooden stick

12. one of the narrow strips of wood or iron plates that form the sides, covering, or lining of something (as a barrel)

13. a wooden stick staff

14. to break in the staves of
stave a barrel

15. to smash a hole in
Waves staved the boat's hull.

16. to keep away ward off
A snack will stave off hunger.

片语

stave off避开；延缓

英汉例句

• For several years the United States had been staving off the entry of Beijing into the UN.

  好几年来，美国一直在阻止北京进入联合国。

• It is true that, as Germany「s Angela Merkel has conceded, all euro-area countries have an interest in staving off a default.

  当然，就像德国总理默克尔坦言的那样，暂时避免陷入债务危机同所有欧元区国家利益相关。

• There is little downside in predicting disaster: if it does not materialise they can claim to have been instrumental in staving it off.

  预言灾难几乎毫无坏处：如果灾难没有出现，他们可以声称预言对防止灾难起到了重要作用。

• That is revving recovery in big emerging economies, while only staving off a relapse into recession in much of the rich world.

  只是新兴经济大国复苏迅速，使大多数发达国家避免了重陷衰退。 这里应该是：（公共开支产生的需求）正使得新兴经济大国加速经济复苏，但是对多数发达国家来说，（公共开支产生的需求）只能避免他们重陷衰退。

• As a compromise measure, some patients opt to take medication for a short time, staving off for a few years the damage the illness will cause.

  作为一种折衷措施，一些患者选择短时间服用药物而后停止，以此延缓几年疾病损害的进展。

• Growth hormone also plays a role in fighting tissue breakdown, staving off stress fractures and improving metabolic function.

  生长激素在对抗阻止分解、应力断裂和提高新陈代谢功能中也发挥作用。

• Aren」t we supposed to be paying this kind of attention to our health, reducing risks, staving off illness and catching problems while they「re still small?

  难道我们不应该通过年检来关注自己的健康，降低风险，避开疾病并且在疾病发病初期就发现问题吗？

• Some of the variants could have a role in staving off debilitating age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer」s disease and cardiovascular disease.

  一些变异有延缓与年龄有关的衰弱性疾病的作用，比如老年癡呆癥和心血管疾病。

• Corporations are not going to do it: they are cutting investment and hoarding cash in the hope of staving off a liquidity crisis or even bankruptcy.

  众多企业并没有如此计划，他们削减投资、囤积现金，希望能够避免清偿危机甚至破产的发生。

• And there is lots of evidence that fluid intake is very effective in staving off recurrent kidney stone attacks.

  有大量的证据表明，摄入大量流体对于延缓经常性肾结石发作是非常有效的。

• Gheorghiade doesn「t recommend that people take large amounts of this supplement in hopes of staving off heart disease.

  盖奥艾德并不建议人们通过大量服用这种补充剂来期冀心脏病不会发生。

• Useful for staving off Alzheimer 」s16, but don「t expect it to help you solve that sudoku17.

  有助于预防老年癡呆癥的发生，然而别指望它可以帮你做数独游戏。

• More importantly for Mr Obama, he can now claim back home that he has led the global effort to tackle the global recession while staving off any attempt to pin the blame on the US.

  对奥巴马来说更重要的是，现在他回国后可以宣称，自己在解决全球经济衰退的全球努力中发挥了领导作用，同时击退了任何将责任归咎于美国的企图。

• In the meantime, international aid agencies such as the World food Programme are likely to play the leading role in staving off mass food shortages and starvation.

  与此同时，世界粮食计划署等国际援助机构有可能在解决粮食大量短缺和饑饿方面扮演主要角色。

• Palpatine had long been staving death away by using arcane Sith knowledge and cloning technology.

  长期以来，帕尔·帕廷一直利用西斯秘学和克隆技术逃避死亡。

• By moderately reducing cholesterol levels (by between 5 and 10 percent in some studies), by thinning the blood and thereby staving off dangerous clots, and by acting as an antioxidant.

  因为其可中度降低胆固醇水平(一些研究结果显示可达5% - 10%)，也可以稀释血液从而降低血栓形成的危险，同时还可作为抗氧化剂。

• Even small increases in activity improved the odds of staving off the disease.

  即使是小量增加活动也能改善削减癌癥的机会。

• A tardy apology on May 18th aimed at staving off pressure from fellow MPs that he resign only heightened it.

  5月18日姗姗来迟的道歉本是为了缓解来自议员同事要求他辞职的压力，然而却反而使之进一步高涨。

• Census Bureau data suggest that Americans generally are staving off disability to the very end of life: Those at age 65 can expect that half their remaining years will be disability free.

  美国人口普查局的数据显示，总的来说，美国人即使是在人生尽头也没有丧失生活和工作的能力：65岁的人可以指望今后日子中有一半时间都不会受到此类困扰。

• Prof. GATZ: It」s - there's also a distinction to be made between improving brain health and staving off dementia…

  教授G ：改善脑健康和避免得癡呆这两者是有区别的。