staving

英 [ˈsteɪvɪŋ]

美 [ˈsteɪvɪŋ]

v.  延缓;压扁;在…上打洞; 破碎;穿孔
stave的现在分词

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

• That deal, aimed at staving off the need for compulsory redundancies, involves staff accepting a pay freeze on their hourly rate, a reduction in working hours, and enhanced pensions under a two-year deal.
  上述协议旨在暂时避开强制性裁员的需要，内容包括职员接受计时工资冻结不再涨薪、工时减少以及增加两年期合同中的养老金。
• A Comparative Research of Ancient and Modern Mechanism about Athletic Exercise Staving off Decrepitude
  运动延缓衰老的古今机理研究比较
• He has obviously been listening to the talk on TV about how the American consumer is keeping the world economy from sinkingsintosrecession and perhaps even staving off a catastrophic bout of deflation.
  显然，他是一直听电视里有关美国消费者正在使世界经济不致陷入萧条、甚至还会避免一场通货紧缩灾难的谈话节目。
• Last week, central bankers from the eurozone and Japan voiced optimism that their policies of quantitative easing and currency depreciation would be successful in staving off outright deflation.
  就在上周，欧元区各国央行和日本央行曾乐观表示，量化宽松和货币贬值政策有可能帮助它们成功避免全面通缩。
• Ku smiled apologetically at Li and said," my luggage is all here. I think I'll go with them. there's no point staving here any longer. "
  顾尔谦向李梅亭抱歉地笑道：“我行李全到了，我想跟他们去，在这儿住下去没有意义。”
• We keep the back channels open in hopes of staving off disaster.
  打开秘密渠道，以免灾难发生。
• A more effective approach to staving off potential unrest in urban areas would be to increase investment, not in more hardware, but in human capital.
  阻止城市地区发生潜在骚乱的更有效方法将是增加投资&不是建设更多的硬件设施，而是投资于人力资本。
• For several years the United States had been staving off the entry of Beijing into the un.
  好几年来，美国一直在阻止北京进入联合国。
• For the moment, however, European leaders are still concentrating on staving off the evil moment when this problem has to be confronted.
  但是现在，欧洲各国领导人仍在致力于延缓不得不直面问题的那一痛苦时刻的到来。
• But if it is not, she will face a difficult ongoing balancing act between defending the integrity of an institution she now runs and staving off immediate disaster in a continent she has just left.
  否则，她就需要艰难而长期地维持一个平衡：一方面要捍卫她如今掌管的组织的廉正性，另一方面要为她刚刚离开的欧洲抵御迫在眉睫的灾难。