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
- 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。 - 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 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - For several years the United States had been staving off the entry of Beijing into the un.
好几年来，美国一直在阻止北京进入联合国。 - With political opposition to new loans to Greece growing in several northern eurozone countries and the European Central Bank adamantly against any restructuring of Greek debt, European leaders see the privatisation plan as the best hope of staving off insolvency.
在一些欧元区北方国家，反对为希腊提供新贷款的政治声浪日益高涨，而欧洲央行（ECB）坚决反对希腊重组债务。因此，欧洲领导人把私有化计划视作希腊避免破产的最大希望。 - 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。