stave
stave 英 [steɪv] 美 [stev]
n. 狭板；梯级；诗句；五线谱表 vt. 延缓；击穿；凿孔于；压扁 vi. 破碎；穿孔
进行时:staving 过去式:staved 过去分词:staved 第三人称单数:staves 名词复数:staves
- A stave is the crosspiece between the legs of a chair or a wooden slat forming the side of a barrel. In music, it's the five lines you write notes on.
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- n. 狭板；梯级；诗句；五线谱表
- vt. 延缓；击穿；凿孔于；压扁
- vi. 破碎；穿孔
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1. China may be allowing it to drift higher to stave off American retaliation.
中国可能会允许它升值的更高，从而延缓美国的报复。
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2. There’s no sense of straining to stay awake or to stave off sleep. I’m simply not sleepy.
并没有那种持续的竭力保持清醒，从而延缓睡觉的感觉，我根本就没有睡意。
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3. Not only did major economies look to China to stave off the global slump, but for years its cheap exports allowed western consumers to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle with low inflation.
不仅只有主要经济体在期望着中国延缓全球衰退，而且多年来其廉价的出口让西方消费者们享受了低通胀的舒适生活。
- stave (n.) "piece of a barrel," 1750, back-formation from staves (late 14c.), plural of staff, with the usual change of medial -f- to -v- (compare leaves/leaf). The plural form possibly was in Old English but not recorded there.
- stave (v.) 1540s, "to fit with staves," from stave (n.). The meaning "break into staves" is from 1590s (with in from 1748, chiefly nautical, on notion of bashing in the staves of a cask). Past tense stove. Stave off (1620s), however, is literally "keep off with a staff," as of one beset by wolves or dogs. Related: Staved; staving.
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