| 词汇 | forestalled |
| 释义 | forestalled past simple and past participle offorestall 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 bottleneck derail fireproof guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom head off preclusive prejudice prevent preventable preventative scuttle smother Examples of forestalledforestalled In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. Although population pressure, immigration and trade disrupted all the frontier regions, intelligent local policies could have prevented friction and forestalled revolt. Political innovation that is not legitimized through a change of public sentiment is, on the other hand, likely to be forestalled. Thus, signing a preferential arrangement is forestalled by a heightened number of veto players. It seemed that, by this means, a potentially damaging quarrel with the king over the privileges of members of the lower house had been forestalled. However, the generalization of this effect throughout the child's phonology is apparently forestalled by some pressure to retain the overall quantity of target forms. A couple of misunderstandings should be forestalled. Rosen claims that the problem is forestalled because classical theory regards individuals as free to 'choose which pleasures to value most and which pains to avoid'. He either followed or forestalled all the arguments that could be advanced in favour of a special concession in this case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This was done because we had reason to believe that we might be forestalled by certain foreign interests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now it is suggested again that expenditure on industrial capital equipment should be forestalled further. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why was the possibility of our being forestalled never considered and provision made for it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, we have rather allowed ourselves to be forestalled and it will mean a strenuous effort if we are to keep up with our competitors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 None the less, some later difficulties could be forestalled by the earlier application of some such precautions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that was his intention, we forestalled it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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