动词延缓; 避开，挡开，延迟; 暂时挡住; 避开（某事）; 推迟（令人不快的事物）
1. 挡开, 避开：shore up confidence 提振市场信心 | stave off 挡开, 避开, | liquidate assets 资产清算
2. 避开：Roundworm:线虫 | Stave off:避开 | Biochemistry:生物化学
3. 桶板脱落：stave in 撞破 | stave off 桶板脱落 | stave 桶板;(桶
4. 阻挡,延缓：sanitary 有关卫生的 | stew 炖菜 | stave off 阻挡,延缓
1. 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.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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. Telephone customers became more important to Cisco as Chambers expanded offerings for phone companies that were upgrading systems to stave off competition from cable providers.
2. Thailand first floated the idea of rice cartel in 2001 to stave off a shrink in market share caused by higher export price.
3. Zhou lost his sight to a cataract when he was 9, despite his parents'best efforts to stave off the worst.
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5. Governments have spent billions pumping sand onto disappearing beaches and trying to stave off the loss of coastal wetlands.
6. A source with the civil affairs authority of Chengdu says the move is aimed to effectively stave off coercive begging.
7. Bush to try to stave off recession amid a deepening housing and credit market crisis.
8. Chinese banks are also pushing to issue more credit cards to stave off flocks of Chinese shifting their money to foreign lenders.
9. However the market fluctuated amid talk the US central bank could cut rates soon to stave off a global credit squeeze.
10. Officials urged those returning to wear masks to protect from mold and to properly dispose of spoiled food to stave off vermin.