stave off

基本解释

There’s no sense of straining to stay awake or to stave off sleep. I’m simply not sleepy.
并没有那种持续的竭力保持清醒，从而延缓睡觉的感觉，我根本就没有睡意。
Or he may have thought that he had done enough to stave off threats to his rule and could go into reverse.
或者他可能已经想到他之前所做的足以避开那些威胁他统治的危险并开始出现转机。
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.
通过这一研究，他们希望最终能为消费者提供一些更个性化的建议，即应如何健康饮食以避免和延缓心脏疾病、癌症和其他老年慢性病。

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.