| 词汇 | forestall |
| 释义 | forestall verb[ T ] uk /fɔːˈstɔːl/ us /fɔːrˈstɑːl/ to prevent something from happening by acting first: 预先阻止；先发制人 The company executives forestalled criticism by inviting union leaders to meet.公司管理层邀请工会领袖见面，以避免遭受批评。 Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably fireproof flameproof guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom head off preclusion preclusive prejudice prevent preventable scuttle smother suffocate forestall | American Dictionaryforestall verb[ T ] us/fɔrˈstɔl, foʊr-/ to prevent something from happening by acting first: Many doctors prescribe aspirin to forestall second heart attacks. Examples of forestallforestall The same discipline forestalls the policy inconsistency problem referred to earlier. He wants to prevent interruption in production and forestall reflection on a vicious economic cycle that leaves people poor despite their long hours of work. In this conference the emphasis was on seeking common denominators that may help us to forestall such tragic occurrences in the future. And these old southerners also conspired as a group to forestall any challenge to the southern segregation system, their obsessive interest. On the other hand, it is not an allowing death simpliciter insofar as death cannot be prevented, but only can be forestalled, put off, postponed. Once in power, the executive, the military, and the security apparatus used violence to maintain their positions and forestall yet another coup. Why would reformers seek to forestall future business backlash were it not for the influence that angry employers might wield? We believe that our analysis provides useful insights into the role that developed countries must play if we are to forestall global climate change. Although population pressure, immigration and trade disrupted all the frontier regions, intelligent local policies could have prevented friction and forestalled revolt. Insulating coatings increase the energy deposition, evidently by forestalling the formation of plasma around a wire. Political innovation that is not legitimized through a change of public sentiment is, on the other hand, likely to be forestalled. The example's details are meant to forestall this claim. Let us transpose this reasoning to forestalling high unemployment. Prohibitions of local or special legislation, and similarly, objections to "class" legislation, were efforts to forestall legislative favors to specific individuals or groups. Three memorials was brought out hastily to forestall pirate editions. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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