You can also ward off something or stave off something.

你也可以避开或者延缓某事。

Dr Li and Dr Hu wondered if the problem of electrode damage might be ameliorated by using a more pliant material for the frames on which the electrodes are suspended.

李士士想弄清楚，如果使用一构成电池框架的，更柔韧的材料—以达到延缓电极的目的，这样是否可以改善有关电极损坏方面的问题。

Of course, these measures will only delay the spread of the virus if indeed it turns out to be a lot more contagious than Delta, in which case, it will eventually overtake Delta as the dominant variant worldwide.

当然，如果病毒的传染性确实比德尔塔病毒大很多，那么这些措施只能延缓病毒的传播，在这情况下，奥密克戎最终将超过德尔塔成为全球最主要的病毒变。

Slowing down and piling up at sea, and at the ports of entry.

在海上入港口到处都是延缓堆积的场面。

Studies show that playing the commended amount of video games can improve your vision, social skills and even help slow the aging process.

研究表示适度玩游戏可以高视力，社交能力，甚至可以延缓衰老。

This is part of an effort by the Biden Administration to slow the spread of Omicron, a newly identified mutation or strain of COVID.

这是拜登政府为了延缓最近刚发现的新冠变异毒株——奥密克戎蔓延而采取的措施之一。

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

研究表明，茶、苹果浆果可以延缓与年龄有关的记忆力丧失。

They make peripheral vision intentionally blurry which appears to slow the progression of myopia.

它们有意使周边视觉模糊，这似乎延缓了近视的发展。

Legal challenges might delay the process further.

法律的挑战可能会进一步延缓整个过程。

Could you wait a little longer for your payment from us?

可否请您延缓我们付款的时间？

Just because there's not a single pill or even a handful of pills we can hold up and say is the cure to Alzheimer's, that doesn't mean there's no way to prevent, stall or even reverse the disease.

尽管没有哪可以治愈老年痴呆症，也不意味着没有办法预防、延缓甚至逆转这疾病。

And it also helps slow down decreases in our bone density that happen over time.

此外，它还有助于延缓骨密度随时间流逝而下降的速度。

Since Monday, EMS crews in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have responded to at least 142 traffic accidents while the forecast shows there will be periods of reprieve over the next two days.

自周一以来，达拉斯-沃斯堡区的紧急医疗救护人员已经处理了至少142起交通事故，而预报显示，未来两天事故情况将有所延缓。

Others, however, believed the problem had only been postponed. They hoped the delay would give reasonable men of the North and South time to find a permanent answer to the issue of slavery. Time was running out.

然而，其他人则认为这个问题只是被延缓了。他们希望推迟一段时间能够让南北双方那些理性人士找到解决奴隶制问题的永久性答案，时间已所剩不多。

" It slows down the whole lifecycle of wheat research."

“它延缓了小麦研究的整个生命周期。”

The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life can also help delay the onset of diseases, like Alzheimer's and dementia by as much as five years.

而双语者大脑终生受到的锻炼可延缓一些疾病的发生达五年之久，像是阿尔茨海默症痴呆症。

There's tablets, there's capsules, all different types of coatings that can go over the tablet that allow for it to be dissolved or metabolized more slowly once it hits the acid of your stomach.

例如，片、胶囊以及各包衣可以控制在胃酸中的溶解速度，从而延缓代谢过程。

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细胞应该依旧能产生些反应，而这有助于延缓重症。

This study will be similar to others that have been conducted in the past, outside the United States, which show that low-dose atropine eye drops can delay the onset of myopia in children.

这项研究将与过去在美国以外进行的其他研究类似，这些研究都表明，低剂量阿托品水可以延缓儿童近视的发生。

Although in the early stages of research, the goal is to prevent or even delay the onset of cognitive decline, so people can have quality of life in their golden years.

虽然目前仍处于研究的早期阶段，该研究的目标是防止甚至延缓认知衰退的发生，这样人们就可以在他们的黄金时代拥有高质量的生活。