stave是什么意思？

stave

英[steɪv] 美[stev]

• n. 狭板，梯级，诗句，五线谱表；
• vt. 延缓，在…上打洞，压扁；
• vi. 破碎，穿孔；

过去式：staved;

过去分词：staved;

现在分词：staving;

第三人称单数：staves;

例句

• desperate attempts to stave off civil war 孤注一掷地避免内战的努力
• to stave off hunger/illness 暂时解饥/缓解病情
• He is utterly ignorant of staff [ stave ] . 他对 五线谱 一窍不通.
• But the reality of discovery was a different matter, and he did all he could to stave it off. 但所发现的实际情况完全是另一回事，所以他只好尽自己所能暂缓其发生。
• 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。
• 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.
• I went on desperately reading to her - reading my own poems - anybody's poems - to stave off conversation. 我先是拼命地念诗给她听 -- 念我自己的诗 -- 还念别人的诗 -- 避免谈话.
• He thought of riding a camel to conserve his strength and stave off hunger. 想到这里,他想骑上骆驼,省些力气可以多挨一会儿饥饿.

词组

• stave off
  To keep or hold off; repel 阻止：不使接近； 赶走

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  (尤指用作武器的)棍，棒，杖
  A stave is a strong stick, especially one that is used as a weapon.
  例句
  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。
• N-COUNT
  五线谱
  A stave is the five lines that music is written on.

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  使向内塌陷；压凹；撞扁
  The side of the boat was staved in when it hit the rocks. 船触礁把船舷撞扁了。
  暂时挡住，避开(某事)；延缓，推迟(令人不快的事物)
  to stave off hunger/illness 暂时解饥/缓解病情 desperate attempts to stave off civil war 孤注一掷地避免内战的努力 I staved off jet lag with a bath and an early night. 我洗了个澡又提前睡下，免除飞行时差的反应。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
  2. one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
  3. a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
• Verb
  1. furnich with staves;
  "stave a ladder"
  2. burst or force (a hole) into something

行业词典

• 体育： 制弓用木头；