stave
英 [steɪv]
美 [steɪv]
n. 棍; 棒; 木柱; 五线谱
v. 延缓;压扁;在…上打洞; 破碎;穿孔
过去分词:staved 现在分词:staving 过去式:staved 复数:staves 第三人称单数:staves
Collins.1 / BNC.18430 / COCA.13673
短语动词
stave off
1. 推迟;暂时避开
短语用例
stave sth↔in
- 使向内塌陷;压凹;撞破
to break or damage sth by pushing it or hitting it from the outside- fence staves
篱笆桩
- fence staves
stave sth↔off
- 暂时挡住(坏事);延缓,推迟(某事物)
to prevent sth bad from affecting you for a period of time; to delay sth
牛津词典
noun
- 棍;棒;木柱
a strong stick or pole- fence staves
篱笆桩
- fence staves
- 五线谱
a set of five lines on which music is written
verb
verb
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
英英释义
noun
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
- (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
verb
- burst or force (a hole) into something
- furnish with staves
- stave a ladder
双语例句
- It was impossible to stave off disaster.
想避免灾难是不可能的。 - 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。 - She tried to stave off further awkward questions.
她竭力避开更尴尬的问题。 - This will clean the blade, stave off rusting, and add weeks of shaving life.
这将会清洁刀片、防止生锈,延长几周使用寿命。 - The thermal test system of cooling stave was designed and established to put up the industrial experiment of the heat transfer for the cast steel cooling stave and ductile iron cooling stave.
设计并建造了冷却壁热态试验系统,对铸钢冷却壁和球墨铸铁冷却壁的换热效果进行了工业模拟试验。 - They want to stave off any attempt to intervene.
他们想要防止任何进行干涉的企图。 - Many people switch on the television simply to stave off boredom over the Christmas break
很多人打开电视仅仅是为了打发圣诞节休息期间的无聊时光而已。 - Unobstructed access for humanitarian assistance is critical to stave off needless death and suffering.
畅通无阻地提供人道主义援助对于避免不必要的死亡和痛苦至关重要。 - To stave off recession, the Federal Reserve loosened monetary policy.
为了防止经济衰退,美联储放松了货币政策。 - I went on desperately reading to her-reading my own poems-anybody's poems-to stave off conversation.
我先是拼命地念诗给她听念我自己的诗还念别人的诗避免谈话。