forestalled

英 [fɔːˈstɔːld]

美 [fɔːrˈstɔːld]

v.  预先阻止; 在(他人)之前行动; 先发制人
forestall的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 预先阻止;抢在…之前行动
  If youforestallsomeone, you realize what they are likely to do and prevent them from doing it.
  1. O'Leary made to open the door, but Bunbury forestalled him by laying a hand on his arm...
     奥利里想去开门，但是邦伯里抢先一把摁住了他的胳膊。
  2. Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations.
     广场上驻守着大批警察以防止任何示威活动。

双语例句

• If our economy is kept within this reasonable range and financial risks are effectively forestalled, markets and society will have stable expectations.
  使经济运行保持在这一合理区间，切实防范金融风险，可以给市场和社会一个稳定的预期。
• He was about to speak but she forestalled him.
  他正打算讲话，她却抢先阻止了他。
• O'Leary made to open the door, but Bunbury forestalled him by laying a hand on his arm
  奥利里想去开门，但是邦伯里抢先一把摁住了他的胳膊。
• The two names had been forestalled by La Fontaine.
  这两个名字都是拉封丹①预见了的。
• China travel service forestalled the Chinese modern travel industry for 30 years, and gradually become one of the biggest travel agencies in the world.
  正是依凭这独特的企业文化，中国旅行社独占中国现代旅游业鳌头30年，并逐渐跻身于世界大旅行社之列。
• His three companions made the introductory gesture of eloquent speech; but the young man at the door forestalled them.
  他的三个伙伴好象准备作长篇演说似的做了个开场的手势；可是门口那个年轻人抢先说话了。
• Disrupting it thus forestalled the risk of creating anything nasty.
  破坏它提前防止了引起麻烦问题的危险性。
• He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China.
  他能别出心裁，他沤小绿肥来培植一些稀有珍贵的美洲的和中国的灌木，在这方面他超过了苏兰日·波丹。
• Stock investment is its main business, and operational system is a focal point, so the tendency of risk should be forestalled;
  证券投资是其主要业务，运作制度是重点，应防止风险倾向；
• The fact that there are troubled banks from the us to Europe, Japan and Australia could hardly have been predicted or forestalled by a US regulator.
  从美国到欧洲、从日本到澳大利亚，都有银行陷入困境，这个事实几乎不可能被美国的一个监管机构预测到或事先加以阻止。