stave off

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stave off (第三人称单数简单现在时 staves off，现在分词 staving off，一般过去时及过去分词 staved off 或 stove off)

  1. (俗语) 防止，避免
    He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office.
    他喝了很多橙汁，希望能够抵御办公室里的冷气。
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    • 2011, Jamie Noguchi, Yellow Peril: The View‎[1]:
      LANCE: Only through my training as a sex machine am I able to stave off genital turgidity.
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    • 2020 4月 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, 出自 Rail，页号 69:
      So it was perhaps political backlash from the trebling of public transport times between Harlech to Porthmadog if buses took over that staved off immediate talks of closure and the release of a £241,000 subsidy (2020: £3.8m).
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