forestall

单词forestall

基本解释

v.: 预先阻止；在（他人）之前行动；先发制人
网络: 预防；垄断；抢先

权威解释

• 预先阻止；在（他人）之前行动；先发制人:

  to prevent sth from happening or sb from doing sth by doing sth first

英汉解释

• 先发制人

• 排斥

• 杜绝

• 阻止

• 垄断,屯积

• 抢先,占先;先下手

• 事先采取措施以防止

• 阻碍,防止;免得,预防

词性分析

• 第三人称单数：forestalls

• 现在分词：forestalling

• 过去式：forestalled

同义词

v.anticipateforeseeenvisionexpectpredict

例句

• As if to forestall any more questions, he began to jog through the sand.

  象是为了免得对方再多问似的，他索性在沙滩上小跑起来。

• The question will be how much progress is enough to forestall other measures that people will inevitably start calling for.

  目前的问题是，取得多少进展才足以阻止人们开始要求采取其它措施。

• Even partial success by the time Canadians pack away their barbecues might be enough to forestall an election this year.

  在加拿大人收好他们的烧烤时，任何局部胜利都足以在今年的选举中先发制人。

• Efforts to forestall climate change are slotted into the meandering narrative of a conspiracy against the American way of life.

  阻止气候变化的努力，被套上了“颠覆美国生活方式的阴谋”这个帽子。

• He said nothing about the English attempt to forestall his re-election. His friends said it for him.

  他没提英格兰企图预先阻止他再次当选FIFA主席的事，他自有朋友替他说话。

• Now you are going to say something about law being the worst wilderness of the two, but I forestall you; remember, I have forestalled you.

  你是想说法律比这荒地还要荒芜，不过我替你先说出来了。记住，我替你先说出来了。

• The inability of the Republicans to forestall or fix the crisis was the main reason you won (after your charm and brains, naturally).

  共和党无能去预测和解决这场危机。这就是你（民主党）胜出的主要原因。

• House Speaker N. P. and Republican minority leader J. B. said the measure does what is necessary to forestall further economic damage.

  白宫发言人N.P。和共和党少数派领导人J.B。称这项措施对预防进一步的经济危害是必须的。

• So it should lay out a strategy for restoring the public finances to calm the markets and forestall a rise in bond yields.

  政府应该制定为提振公共财政制定一个计划，稳定市场并且防止债券是收益率升高。

• I needed to engage in any activity I could imagine that would forestall the beginning of adult life.

  任何我能想到的会是我成年生命开始的活动我都应该去参加。