stave off

1. PHRASAL VERB 推迟;暂时避开
   If you stave off something bad, or if you stave it off, 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。

1. Many people switch on the television simply to stave off boredom over the Christmas break
   很多人打开电视仅仅是为了打发圣诞节休息期间的无聊时光而已。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. When you plan to be out all day, bring along your own healthy snacks to stave off hunger.
   如果你打算出去一整天，带上你自己的健康零食来抵御饥饿。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. In Fenghua, government officials are trying to stave off a default by a local developer.
   在奉化，当地政府官员正在试图避免一家本地开发商出现债务违约。
9. 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。
10. Second, he did what was necessary to stave off a global depression.
    其次，奥巴马为防止全球陷入萧条采取了必要的做法。
11. Dieting to be thin is on its own not enough to stave off diabetes.
    研究人员说，节食本身不足以延缓糖尿病。
12. I went on desperately reading to her-reading my own poems-anybody's poems-to stave off conversation.
    我先是拼命地念诗给她听念我自己的诗还念别人的诗避免谈话。
13. High-yielding varieties, along with subsidized fertilizer and irrigation, have helped India stave off famine for decades.
    这十年里，高产的稻种、政府补贴额化肥和灌溉系统，使印度没有发生过饥荒。
14. 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。
15. So will this stave off insolvency?
    那么这将会阻止希腊破产吗？
16. Instead, they want budget cuts to lower risk premiums and stave off disruptive debt restructurings.
    相反，它们希望通过削减预算来降低风险溢价，并避免破坏性的债务重组。
17. 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。
18. She tried to stave off further awkward questions.
    她竭力避开更尴尬的问题。
19. The first priority of the rebels-turned-rulers must be physical security to stave off anarchy and looting.
    从反政府武装转型来的统治者们的首要任务就是确保人身安全，防止混乱和劫掠。
20. 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。
21. She is determined to stave off the man who wanted to abandon her when she was in trouble.
    她决心甩掉那个在她陷入困境时想抛弃她的那个人。
22. 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。
23. Once we caught him dozing off in class. A nap will stave off fatigue.
    有一次我们发现他在上课时打盹。打个盹会消除疲乏。
24. 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。
25. They want to stave off any attempt to intervene.
    他们想要防止任何进行干涉的企图。
26. To stave off recession, the Federal Reserve loosened monetary policy.
    为了防止经济衰退，美联储放松了货币政策。
27. But if foreign earnings have helped US multinationals stave off a fall in profitability, the question is whether the current reliance on the rest of the world is just a cyclical phase or the harbinger of a transformation in corporate America.
    但如果说海外收入帮助美国的跨国企业避免了利润率的下降，那么现在的问题是，当前对世界其它地方的依赖究竟只是一个周期性阶段，还是美国企业界变革的预兆？
28. But three economists said the numbers confirmed Chinese banks implemented rollovers on a huge scale to stave off defaults.
    但是，三名经济学家表示，这些数字证实中国各银行实施了巨大规模的滚转操作，以避免面对违约。
29. It was impossible to stave off disaster.
    想避免灾难是不可能的。
30. Many investors do not think it goes far enough to stave off a recession.
    很多投资者认为，该计划的实施力度不足以避免经济衰退。

verb

1. prevent the occurrence of
   1. Let's avoid a confrontation
   2. head off a confrontation
   3. avert a strike

   Synonym:    debarforefendforfendobviatedeflectaverthead offfend offavoidward off