forestalled

英 [fɔːˈstɔːld]

美 [fɔːrˈstɔːld]

v.  预先阻止; 在(他人)之前行动; 先发制人
forestall的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 预先阻止;抢在…之前行动
  If youforestallsomeone, you realize what they are likely to do and prevent them from doing it.
  1. O'Leary made to open the door, but Bunbury forestalled him by laying a hand on his arm...
     奥利里想去开门，但是邦伯里抢先一把摁住了他的胳膊。
  2. Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations.
     广场上驻守着大批警察以防止任何示威活动。

双语例句

• O'Leary made to open the door, but Bunbury forestalled him by laying a hand on his arm
  奥利里想去开门，但是邦伯里抢先一把摁住了他的胳膊。
• I meant to meet my friend at the station, but she forestalled me by arriving on an earlier train and coming to the house.
  我打算去车站接我的朋友，但她乘了前面的一班火车抢先到了我的家。
• His three companions made the introductory gesture of eloquent speech; but the young man at the door forestalled them.
  他的三个伙伴好象准备作长篇演说似的做了个开场的手势；可是门口那个年轻人抢先说话了。
• He was about to speak but she forestalled him.
  他正打算讲话，她却抢先阻止了他。
• Pairing of the XY starts at early pachytene and completes at middle pachytene. The disappearance of XY chromosome is forestalled as compared with autosomal SC at later pachytene.
  XY染色体的配对起始于早粗线期，成熟于中粗线期，在晚粗线期先于常染色体解联会；XY-SC开始解体于晚粗线期。
• He forestalled all his competitors.
  他比所有的竞争者都占先了一步。
• How can disasters be forestalled when designing future metros?
  未来之设计如何防灾？
• Mosquito breeding can be forestalled by killing the insect at its adult or and larval pupal stages.
  把蚊子的成虫或及幼虫蛹杀灭，可防止蚊子滋生。
• The government forestalled criticism by holding a public enquiry into the matter.
  政府对那件事进行了一次公开调查，预先避免了受批评。
• Disrupting it thus forestalled the risk of creating anything nasty.
  破坏它提前防止了引起麻烦问题的危险性。