staving

• It was the bread, potatoes, meat and hot floury puddings which staved off exhaustion .
  吃面包、土豆、肉和热米粉布丁能够驱除疲劳。
• We would watch her go from the stove to the sink, from the cabinet to the table .
  我们看着他走来走去，从炉子到水槽，从橱柜到餐桌。
• 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。
• You have had to write checks to stave off the ever-insistent clains of your creditors .
  你必须很快地开出支票来偿付你的没完没了的欠债。
• You have had to write checks to stave off the ever-insistent claims of your creditors .
  你必须很快地据此而开出支票来偿付你的没完没了的欠债。
• The only furniture was a couple of old kitchen tables, a blackboard and a rusty stove .
  仅有的家具是两张厨房用的旧桌子，一块黑板和一只生锈的炉子。
• Geodetic leveling should be done with staves in which the divisions are marked on a strip of invar .
  大地水准测量必须使用刻度标于不胀钢片上的水准标尺。
• The room was very hot, for the stove had been alight all day and the windows were seldom opened .
  因为炉子整天烧着，而窗户又很少开的缘故，屋子里非常热。
• I went on desperately reading to her-reading my own poems-anybody's poems-to stave off conversation .
  我继续拼命地念诗给她听--念我自己的诗--还念别人的诗--避免谈话。
• She would make him take a big dose of soda before he went out; soda always helped to stave off a cold .
  在他出去以前，她还要让他喝上大大一杯苏打水，因为苏打水有助于预防伤风。