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.- 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。
- Many of the men had armed themselves with staves and pieces of iron.
- 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
- We keep the back channels open in hopes of staving off disaster.
打开秘密渠道，以免灾难发生。 - But if it is not, she will face a difficult ongoing balancing act between defending the integrity of an institution she now runs and staving off immediate disaster in a continent she has just left.
否则，她就需要艰难而长期地维持一个平衡：一方面要捍卫她如今掌管的组织的廉正性，另一方面要为她刚刚离开的欧洲抵御迫在眉睫的灾难。 - A more effective approach to staving off potential unrest in urban areas would be to increase investment, not in more hardware, but in human capital.
阻止城市地区发生潜在骚乱的更有效方法将是增加投资&不是建设更多的硬件设施，而是投资于人力资本。 - 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。 - We don't know how long the building work will last, but we'll be staving with friends for the duration.
我们不知道这项建筑工程要持续多久，但我们在施工期间将住在朋友家。 - Broadly speaking, the genes less active in the lonely were those involved in staving off viral infections.
一般来说，孤独的人体内活力较低的基因是那些帮助人们避开病毒感染的基因。 - Americans spend more than$ 1 billion a year on calcium supplements in hopes of staving off osteoporosis, the brittle bone disease that cripples many elderly women and some men.
美国人一年花费逾10亿美元购买各类钙补充剂，期望能推迟骨质疏松症的发生。骨质疏松症是一种让骨头变脆的疾病，许多老年女性和部分男性都会因骨质疏松致残。 - 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。 - 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。 - And the use of hormones does need to be restricted to the relief of menopausal symptoms, not as a means of staving off heart disease, she added.
激素治疗只能被用于减轻更年期症状，而不能用于预防心脏病的发生。