forestall
- vt. 预先阻止，防止；先发制人，占先一步；（商业，旧）垄断，囤积
[ 第三人称单数 forestalls 现在分词 forestalling 过去式 forestalled 过去分词 forestalled ]
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
forestall /fɔːˈstɔːl/ TEM8 ( forestalling, forestalled, forestalls )
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V-T If you forestall someone, you realize what they are likely to do and prevent them from doing it. 预先阻止
例：Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations.
大批警察在广场上以预先阻止任何游行示威。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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Try to anticipate what your child will do and forestall problems.
尽量预见你的孩子会干什么，并预先阻止问题发生。
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To forestall is better than to amend.; Prevention is better than cure.
与其补救于已然，不如防范于未然。
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We must act now to forestall disaster.
我们现在必须采取行动以防灾难。
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The memos were released - with very little information blacked out - to forestall a court-ordered release under a lawsuit.
VOA: standard.2009.04.17
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These are all international efforts to forestall a financial crisis.
这些是预先阻止金融危机的,国际化努力。
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Israeli analyst Ra'anan Gissin. "The strategic thinking has to be, first of all, to have sufficient intelligence but also the right intelligence, so that we can forestall, so that we can prevent this from happening right from the beginning."
VOA: standard.2010.07.12
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