staved

英 [steɪvd]

美 [steɪvd]

v.  延缓;压扁;在…上打洞; 破碎;穿孔
stave的过去分词和过去式

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

• The EU says its naval force's main mission is to protect freighters carrying the food aid on which Somalis have depended for the past five years, and has thus staved off a full-blown famine.
  欧盟称其海军力量的首要任务是保护运送救助粮食的货船，得益于这些救助粮食，索马里人民才能在过去五年里生存下来，并消除了大规模的饥荒。
• The front of the car was staved in where it had hit the post.
  汽车头部撞上灯柱的地方被撞瘪了。
• Famine also was staved off for some time.
  饥荒也曾经被驱除。
• The side of the boat had been staved in.
  那艘船的侧面已被凿穿了。
• The Malthusian crash was staved off in the 19th century by bringing more land under the plough-in North America, Argentina and Australia especially.
  19世纪的北美洲，人们通过开垦更多的土地避免了马尔萨斯危机的到来。
• For four years medical science staved off any general epidemic;
  4年来，医学击退了任何普通的流行病；
• The state-backed recapitalisation of banks on both sides of the Atlantic has staved off a systemic collapse of confidence.
  大西洋两岸的银行在政府支持下重新调整资本结构，避免了系统性的信心崩溃。
• Researchers cautioned, however, that the studies were small and intended to assess whether the drugs lowered the bad cholesterol and were safe, not whether they staved off heart attacks.
  但是，研究人员警告说，上述研究规模较小，且研究目的是评估这些药物的安全性以及它们能否降低坏胆固醇，而不是它们能否避免心肌梗死。
• 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。
• They staved off a wolf last night.
  昨晚他们赶走了一只狼。