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(méi)有那種持續(xù)的竭力保持清醒，從而延緩睡覺(jué)的感覺(jué)，我根本就沒(méi)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(kāi)那些威脅他統(tǒng)治的危險(xiǎn)并開(kāi)始出現(xiàn)轉(zhuǎn)機(jī)。
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(guò)這一研究，他們希望最終能為消費(fèi)者提供一些更個(gè)性化的建議，即應(yīng)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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If you stave off something bad, or if you stave it off, you succeed in stopping it from happening for a while.