staving

英 [ˈsteɪvɪŋ]

美 [ˈsteɪvɪŋ]

v.  延缓;压扁;在…上打洞; 破碎;穿孔
stave的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (尤指用作武器的)棍，棒，杖
  Astaveis a strong stick, especially one that is used as a weapon.
  1. Many of the men had armed themselves with staves and pieces of iron.
     很多人用棍棒和铁器将自己武装起来。
• 五线谱
  Astaveis the five lines that music is written on.

in AM, use 美国英语用 staff

双语例句

• Jane was so beautiful that she had difficulty staving off all the men who wanted to marry her.
  简太美了，很难抵挡向她求婚的所有男人。
• For the moment, however, European leaders are still concentrating on staving off the evil moment when this problem has to be confronted.
  但是现在，欧洲各国领导人仍在致力于延缓不得不直面问题的那一痛苦时刻的到来。
• Aren't we supposed to be paying this kind of attention to our health, reducing risks, staving off illness and catching problems while they're still small?
  难道我们不应该通过年检来关注自己的健康，降低风险，避开疾病并且在疾病发病初期就发现问题吗？
• More importantly for Mr Obama, he can now claim back home that he has led the global effort to tackle the global recession while staving off any attempt to pin the blame on the US.
  对奥巴马来说更重要的是，现在他回国后可以宣称，自己在解决全球经济衰退的全球努力中发挥了领导作用，同时击退了任何将责任归咎于美国的企图。
• That deal, aimed at staving off the need for compulsory redundancies, involves staff accepting a pay freeze on their hourly rate, a reduction in working hours, and enhanced pensions under a two-year deal.
  上述协议旨在暂时避开强制性裁员的需要，内容包括职员接受计时工资冻结不再涨薪、工时减少以及增加两年期合同中的养老金。
• In the name of staving off the invasion, a series of targeted restrictions and incentives were rolled out.
  以阻挡入侵的名义，一系列定向的限制和鼓励措施出台。
• He has obviously been listening to the talk on TV about how the American consumer is keeping the world economy from sinkingsintosrecession and perhaps even staving off a catastrophic bout of deflation.
  显然，他是一直听电视里有关美国消费者正在使世界经济不致陷入萧条、甚至还会避免一场通货紧缩灾难的谈话节目。
• We keep the back channels open in hopes of staving off disaster.
  打开秘密渠道，以免灾难发生。
• Last week, central bankers from the eurozone and Japan voiced optimism that their policies of quantitative easing and currency depreciation would be successful in staving off outright deflation.
  就在上周，欧元区各国央行和日本央行曾乐观表示，量化宽松和货币贬值政策有可能帮助它们成功避免全面通缩。
• Governments, and particularly the US government, reacted on each occasion by pumping money into the financial system in the hope of staving off wider collapse, with some degree of success.
  在每个极端，各国政府（尤其是美国政府）的回应都是向金融体系注资，以期阻止更大范围的崩盘，它们在某种程度上获得了成功。