You can also ward off something or stave off something.

你也可以避开或者延缓某事。

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

他们会把晾干，做成咀嚼物，并且咀嚼，用来充饥。

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

研究表明，茶、苹果和浆果可以延缓与年龄有忆力丧失。

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，试图阻止税壁垒实施。

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发生，我们可以增强核心肌肉力量，以增加脊柱支撑性和稳定性，我们必须知道，这一个相对很小代价。

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疗。

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，以增加味道，缓解宿醉。

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

当时，世界需要生产更多大米来避免饥荒。

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

乌克兰人否希望这些谈判能够暂时避免冲突?

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

还说这又一个骗局——企图避开另一条通往厌恶和羞耻之路骗局？

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.

超级食物概念对人超级有益。可以预防癌症，甚至治愈癌症，让人避开所有疾病。但单靠食物不可能做到。

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.

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

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，以免喷出火焰把他击着，但又要构成足够威胁，确保眼睛一直盯着自己。

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地步。

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.

她命运已经注定，她所能做就尽最大努力把无辜小牛藏在肚子里，暂时避免不可避免事情发生。

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.

但细胞识别大部分片段都与原版病毒无差，因此 T细胞应该依旧能产生些反应，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.

我很高兴玛莎精力立刻投入到了做布丁这个实用事，因为这样一来，于她否应该离开马蒂小姐家争论就被搁置了。

And they found that upping the apple input could stave off some 8,500 deaths by heart attack or stroke each year—compared with an estimated 9,400 deaths averted by statins in England.

之后他们就发现，相比英格兰地区因服用斯达汀药物每年减少死亡9400人，增加苹果食谱每年可以减少8500人因心脏病或者中风导致死亡。

Massive bail-outs from governments and central banks staved off a second Depression, but failed to prevent a deep recession from which many rich economies have yet fully to recover.

政府和央行纷纷大规模救市，避免了经济二次萧条。然而，许多发达经济体尚未完全恢复经济发展活力，救市未能阻止一场严重衰退降临。