动词延缓; 避开，挡开，延迟; 暂时挡住; 避开（某事）; 推迟（令人不快的事物）
ph.
1. They staved off a wolf last night.
昨晚他们赶走了一只狼。
1. 挡开, 避开：shore up confidence 提振市场信心 | stave off 挡开, 避开, | liquidate assets 资产清算
2. 避开：Roundworm:线虫 | Stave off:避开 | Biochemistry:生物化学
3. 桶板脱落：stave in 撞破 | stave off 桶板脱落 | stave 桶板;(桶
4. 阻挡,延缓：sanitary 有关卫生的 | stew 炖菜 | stave off 阻挡,延缓
1. 推迟;暂时避开
If you stave off something bad, or if you stave it off, you succeed in stopping it happening for a while.
e.g. In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution...
为了竭力避免败局，他勉强答应要对宪法进行大规模修改。
e.g. But the reality of discovery was a different matter, and he did all he could to stave it off.
但所发现的实际情况完全是另一回事，所以他只好尽自己所能暂缓其发生。