ward off
英 [wɔːd ɒf]
美 [wɔːrd ɔːf]
避开,躲开,防止(危险、疾病等)
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 避开,躲开,防止(危险、疾病等)
Toward offa danger or illness means to prevent it from affecting you or harming you.- She may have put up a fight to try to ward off her assailant...
她可能进行了顽强的反抗,试图击退袭击者。 - Mass burials are now under way in an effort to ward off an outbreak of cholera.
为防止霍乱爆发正在进行大规模掩埋。
- She may have put up a fight to try to ward off her assailant...
英英释义
verb
- avert, turn away, or repel
- Ward off danger
- prevent the occurrence of
- Let's avoid a confrontation
- head off a confrontation
- avert a strike
双语例句
- He managed to free one hand to ward off a punch.
他设法挣脱出一只手来挡住了一拳。 - He always carries a stick to ward off wild dogs.
他常常拿着一根棍子防野狗。 - Have a drop. It'll ward off the cold of the night.
喝一口挡挡夜里的寒气。 - This, it is thought, helps ward off health problems including cancer and heart disease.
他们认为这种蔬菜有助于抵御包括癌症和心脏病这类健康问题。 - During the evening picnic, I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.
傍晚野餐时,我要点根火把,抵挡蚊虫。 - He took vitamins to ward off head colds.
他吃维生素以避免伤风。 - I still moisturize occasionally& if only to ward off ridicule.
我仍旧还是会偶尔做做保湿――即使只是为了避免别人的嘲笑。 - Some women take aspirin to ward off breast cancer.
一些妇女吃阿司匹林以防(避开)乳腺癌。 - Back on the city streets, people are wearing breathing masks to ward off any ill effects.
回到城市的道路上,人们都戴着口罩来避开任何不良后果。 - He proposed a series of measures that might ward off the environmental apocalypse.
他提出了一系列可能避免环境灾难的措施。