stave off

基本解釋

There’s no sense of straining to stay awake or to stave off sleep. I’m simply not sleepy.
并沒有那種持續(xù)的竭力保持清醒，從而延緩睡覺的感覺，我根本就沒有睡意。
Or he may have thought that he had done enough to stave off threats to his rule and could go into reverse.
或者他可能已經(jīng)想到他之前所做的足以避開那些威脅他統(tǒng)治的危險并開始出現(xiàn)轉(zhuǎn)機。
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.
通過這一研究，他們希望最終能為消費者提供一些更個性化的建議，即應如何健康飲食以避免和延緩心臟疾病、癌癥和其他老年慢性病。

After receiving more than $180 billion in emergency federal assistance to stave off collapse, AIG recently gave top employees bonuses totaling $165 million - even as the company reported the biggest quarterly loss in U.S.corporate history.

In reaction, they are building their proprietary trading capabilities to stave off the exodus of talent.
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Second, we need to pull our energy and resources to stave off the climate catastrophe.
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The only market that managed to stave off the fear sweeping through markets was Australia.
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If you stave off something bad, or if you stave it off, you succeed in stopping it from happening for a while.