stave

英 [steɪv]

美 [steɪv]

n.  棍; 棒; 木柱; 五线谱
v.  延缓;压扁;在…上打洞; 破碎;穿孔

过去分词：staved　现在分词：staving　过去式：staved　复数：staves　第三人称单数：staves　

Collins.1 / BNC.18430 / COCA.13673

短语动词

短语用例

stave sth↔in

• 使向内塌陷；压凹；撞破
  to break or damage sth by pushing it or hitting it from the outside
  1. fence staves
     篱笆桩

stave sth↔off

• 暂时挡住（坏事）；延缓，推迟（某事物）
  to prevent sth bad from affecting you for a period of time; to delay sth

牛津词典

noun

• 棍；棒；木柱
  a strong stick or pole
  1. fence staves
     篱笆桩
• 五线谱
  a set of five lines on which music is written

verb

verb

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

英英释义

noun

• a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
  Synonym:runground
• one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
  Synonym:lag
• (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
  Synonym:staff

verb

• burst or force (a hole) into something
  Synonym:stave in
• furnish with staves
  1. stave a ladder

双语例句

• Instead, they want budget cuts to lower risk premiums and stave off disruptive debt restructurings.
  相反，它们希望通过削减预算来降低风险溢价，并避免破坏性的债务重组。
• The thermal test system of cooling stave was designed and established to put up the industrial experiment of the heat transfer for the cast steel cooling stave and ductile iron cooling stave.
  设计并建造了冷却壁热态试验系统，对铸钢冷却壁和球墨铸铁冷却壁的换热效果进行了工业模拟试验。
• The lost explorers ate birds'eggs to stave off starvation.
  为了避免饿死，那些迷路的勘探人员吃鸟蛋充饥。
• To stave off disaster we could look only to them.
  要阻挡灾难来临，我们只能指望他们了。
• In Fenghua, government officials are trying to stave off a default by a local developer.
  在奉化，当地政府官员正在试图避免一家本地开发商出现债务违约。
• But this no longer seems enough to stave off some sort of crisis.
  但这么做似乎已不足以避免某种危机的到来。
• To stave off recession, the Federal Reserve loosened monetary policy.
  为了防止经济衰退，美联储放松了货币政策。
• Many investors do not think it goes far enough to stave off a recession.
  很多投资者认为，该计划的实施力度不足以避免经济衰退。
• He is utterly ignorant of staff [ stave].
  他对五线谱一窍不通。
• In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution
  为了竭力避免败局，他勉强答应要对宪法进行大规模修改。