You can also ward off something or stave off something.

以避开或者延缓某事。

They would dry it into a chaw and chew it to stave off hunger.

他们会把它晾干，成咀嚼物，并且咀嚼它，用来充饥。

Tea, apples, and berries could stave off age-related memory loss, study suggests.

研究表明，茶、苹果和浆果以延缓与年龄有关的记忆力丧失。

I knew that helped stave off depressive episodes.

我知道这会帮助我摆脱抑郁。

Some executives want to meet Mr. Trump to try to stave off the tariffs.

一些高管想与特朗普会面，试图阻止关税壁垒的实施。

Staving off relapses meant flying to North Carolina every three weeks to receive chemotherapy treatments.

为了避免复发，他需要每三周飞往北卡罗来纳州接受化疗。

Then, the world needed to produce much more rice to stave off famine.

当时，世界需要生产更多的大米来避免饥荒。

We can try to stave off the worst of it by strengthening our core muscles for added spinal support and stability, and we can also remember that this is a relatively small price to pay.

为避免这一糟糕情况的发生，我们以增强核心肌肉的力量，以增脊柱支撑性和稳定性，我们必须知道，这是一个相对很小的代价。

Do Ukrainians have hope that these talks could stave off a conflict?

乌克兰人是否希望这些谈判够暂时避免冲突?

Stir thyself, Starbuck! — stave it off—move, move! speak aloud!

振作起来，斯塔巴克！—摆脱它—行动，行动！大声叫吧！

Or was this another trick to stave off another access of loathing and shame?

还是说这是又一个骗局——企图避开另一条通往厌恶和羞耻之路的骗局？

Black-eyed peas are blended into a paste, then deep-fried and split open before the fritters are filled with a shrimp-paste blend for punch of flavor to stave off that hangover.

将眉豆混合成糊状物，然后深炸并剖开，将油炸馅饼填充虾酱混合物，以增味道，缓解宿醉。

The notion of a superfood is that is so good for you, it will prevent cancer and even treat cancer or stave off evil illnesses, but food alone cannot do that.

超级食物的概念是指它对人超级有益。它以预防癌症，甚至治愈癌症，让人避开所有疾病。但单靠食物是不到的。

A few more tidbits worth mentioning: Older people generally require more protein to stave off muscle loss, but they tend to respond the least with higher protein intakes when paired with resistance training.

还有一些值得一提的花絮：老年人通常需要更多的蛋白质来防止肌肉流失，但是当与阻力训练相结合时，他们对高蛋白质摄入的反应往往最小。

He began to fly, first this way, then the other, not near enough to make her breathe fire to stave him off, but still posing a sufficient threat to ensure she kept her eyes on him.

他开始不停地飞来飞去，一会儿这边，一会儿那边，小心着不要靠得太近，以免它喷出火焰把他击着，但又要构成足够的威胁，确保它的眼睛一直盯着自己。

In order to stave off disaster, the Treasury spent much of the past six months running down its cash holdings, eventually reaching the point where it had almost nothing left.

为了避免灾难，财政部在过去6个月的大部分时间里都在减少现金持有量，最终达到了现金几乎所剩无几的地步。

But the majority of the fragments the cells recognize are unchanged from the original virus, so the T cells should still be able to mount some response—and that could help stave off severe disease.

但细胞识别的大部分片段都与原版病毒无差，因此 T细胞应该依旧产生些反应，而这有助于延缓重症。

I was rather glad that Martha's energy had taken the immediate and practical direction of pudding-making, for it staved off the quarrelsome discussion as to whether she should or should not leave Miss Matty's service.

我很高兴玛莎的精力立刻投入到了布丁这个实用的事，因为这样一来，关于她是否应该离开马蒂小姐家的争论就被搁置了。

They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town — no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.

他们是开到环城战壕中去----这些战壕不是仓促挖成的浅沟，而是用沙袋和尖头木桩防护着的齐胸高的泥土工程。

Her fate sealed, all she can do is to try her best to shelter the innocent calf under her belly, to stave off the inevitable for a few moments.

她的命运已经注定，她所的就是尽最大努力把无辜的小牛藏在肚子里，暂时避免不避免的事情发生。