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

• Growth hormone also plays a role in fighting tissue breakdown, staving off stress fractures and improving metabolic function.
  生长激素在对抗阻止分解、应力断裂和提高新陈代谢功能中也发挥作用。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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$ 20 billion a year on supplements in hopes of staving off cancer, heart disease, and dementia.
  美国人每年买补品花费超过200亿美元，希望能避免癌症、心脏病和痴呆症。
• 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。
• We keep the back channels open in hopes of staving off disaster.
  打开秘密渠道，以免灾难发生。
• A Comparative Research of Ancient and Modern Mechanism about Athletic Exercise Staving off Decrepitude
  运动延缓衰老的古今机理研究比较
• 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？