forestall
forestall 英 [fɔ:ˈstɔ:l] 美 [fɔrˈstɔl]
vt. 先发制人，预先阻止；垄断，屯积；领先；占先一步
进行时:forestalling 过去式:forestalled 过去分词:forestalled 第三人称单数:forestalls
- It takes a bit of planning to forestall something, meaning stop it from happening. To forestall the effects of aging, exercise and take care of your health all your life.
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- vt. 先发制人，预先阻止；垄断，屯积；领先；占先一步
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1. We start our journey, though, with a look at the inevitable—the private end that we will all have to face and our efforts to forestall it.
在我们旅途的一开始，我们将讨论必将发生的我们个人的终点，我们所有的人都必须面对和我们为避免它作出的的各种努力。
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2. On the same day, President Rene Preval moved to ease tensions and forestall further unrest by announcing a deal with importers to cut rice prices by about 15 percent.
同一天，总统普雷瓦尔宣布了一项与进口商达成的协议，将大米价格降低了约15%，以平息紧张局势并阻止骚乱蔓延。
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3. They must also vary the loan-to-value ratio on commercial and residential mortgages to forestall real estate bubbles.
为预防房地产泡沫，他们也必须适时地调整商业和住宅抵押贷款的贷款价值比。
- forestall (v.) late 14c. (implied in forestalling), "to lie in wait for;" also "to intercept goods before they reach public markets and buy them privately," which formerly was a crime (mid-14c. in this sense in Anglo-French), from Old English noun foresteall "intervention, hindrance (of justice); an ambush, a waylaying," literally "a standing before (someone)," from fore- "before" + steall "standing position" (see stall (n.1)). Modern sense of "to anticipate and delay" is from 1580s. Related: Forestalled; forestalling.
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