| 1. | For a short while, this staves off fire .
在短时间内这可延缓着火。 |
| 2. | Glad that you 've staved off the trouble .
很高兴你避开了这件麻烦事儿。 |
| 3. | To stave off disaster we could look only to them .
要阻挡灾难来临，我们只能指望他们了。 |
| 4. | It was the bread, potatoes, meat and hot floury puddings which staved off exhaustion .
吃面包、土豆、肉和热米粉布丁能够驱除疲劳。 |
| 5. | 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。 |
| 6. | You have had to write checks to stave off the ever-insistent clains of your creditors .
你必须很快地开出支票来偿付你的没完没了的欠债。 |
| 7. | You have had to write checks to stave off the ever-insistent claims of your creditors .
你必须很快地据此而开出支票来偿付你的没完没了的欠债。 |
| 8. | I went on desperately reading to her-reading my own poems-anybody's poems-to stave off conversation .
我继续拼命地念诗给她听--念我自己的诗--还念别人的诗--避免谈话。 |
| 9. | She would make him take a big dose of soda before he went out; soda always helped to stave off a cold .
在他出去以前，她还要让他喝上大大一杯苏打水，因为苏打水有助于预防伤风。 |
| 10. | Trying to stave off that tricky topic, pug asked, "sir, why don't we take in a lot more refugees! "
为了竭力回避这个不好对付的话题，帕格问道：“先生，我们为什么不多接受难民呢？” |
