forestalling

1. VERB 预先阻止;抢在…之前行动
   If you forestall someone, you realize what they are likely to do and prevent them from doing it.
   1. O'Leary made to open the door, but Bunbury forestalled him by laying a hand on his arm...
      奥利里想去开门，但是邦伯里抢先一把摁住了他的胳膊。
   2. Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations.
      广场上驻守着大批警察以防止任何示威活动。

1. It is true that there have been individual cases of financial risks in China, but at the same time we are fully capable of forestalling systemic and regional financial risks.
   中国的确存在着个案性的金融风险，但是我们完全可以守住不发生系统性、区域性金融风险。
2. Most analysts believe that the Pakistani security establishment has tolerated Afghan Taliban leaders on its soil because it viewed them as a means of forestalling the consolidation of an Indian-allied pro-American state on its northern border.
   多数分析人士认为，巴基斯坦安全机构能够容忍阿富汗塔利班领导人藏身巴基斯坦，是为了防止本国北部边境上出现一个与印度结盟并且亲美的统一国家。
3. UK insurance company Prudential is today expected to announce the purchase of AIA, the Asian assets of state-owned AIG merican International Group, forestalling a planned Hong Kong initial public offering.
   预计英国保险商保诚（prudential）今日将宣布收购友邦保险（aia）美国政府所有的美国国际集团（aig）的亚洲资产，从而令友邦计划中的香港首次公开发行告吹。
4. But if the Chinese are now ready to work through the Security Council, that is chiefly in the hope of forestalling unilateral American action.
   但是，如果说中国人现在准备通过安理会解决朝鲜核问题，那主要是寄希望于预先阻止美国单方面采取行动。
5. Forestalling Murphy's Law as applied to products demands intelligence, skill, and commitment.
   先于摩菲定律被灌输入产品的首先是智慧，技能和行动。
6. Death's single privacy, The only one forestalling mine, And that by right that he Presents a claim invisible, No wedlock granted me.
   死亡惟一的秘密，阻止我拥有自己的隐私，凭借自己的权利他提出一个无形的要求，我无权享受的婚姻生活。
7. These measures have played an important role in boosting confidence, reducing the consequences of the crisis, and forestalling a meltdown of the financial system and a deep global recession.
   对提振信心、缓解危机、防止金融体系崩溃和世界经济深度衰退起到了重要作用。
8. Deliver him to us, forestalling action.
   他提供给我们，预先采取行动。
9. The longer change is postponed, however, the bigger the dangers and the higher the costs of forestalling them: Delay in taking action would lead both to more climate change and, ultimately, higher mitigation costs.
   然而，我们拖延的时间越长，危险就越大，对抗这些危险的成本也越高：拖延采取行动的时间，将导致更大的气候变化，最终造成更高的治理成本。
10. Equal emphasis, however, is not given to the presiding fact that our bodies are superbly equipped to deal with the little demons, and that the best way of forestalling an attack is to maintain a sensible life-style.
    然而，我们对另一个重要事实却未能给予同样的重视，那就是，我们的身体装备精良，足以对付这些小妖怪，而且防止妖怪进攻的最佳途径就是保持合理的生活方式。
11. From analysis to type of grassland disaster and cause factor, corresponding countermeasures which include increasing productivity, improving grassland ecology environment, forestalling disaster occurring and developing all of the grassland have been posed so as to promote the production ability of grass.
    本文通过对草地灾害的类型和致灾因素的分析，提出了相应的提高草地生产能力、改善草地生态环境和防止草地灾害发生、发展的对策。

noun

1. the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively

   Synonym:    obviationpreclusion