forestalling

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词义：

v.

先发制人，预先阻止( forestall的现在分词 )；

英英释义

forestalling

n.the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively

同义词：obviationpreclusion

用法：

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

She forestalled my plan to meet her.
她抢在我前面，使我要去接她的计划落了空。

I have my objection all prepared,but Stephens forestall me.
我已做好准备要提出反对意见，不料斯蒂芬斯却抢先了一步。

We must act now to forestall disaster.
我们现在必须采取行动以防灾难。

We installed an alarm system to forestall break-in.
我们安装了一套警报系统来预防小偷的闯入。

权威例句

Forestalling fibrosis

Forestalling use of duplicate volume identifiers

Alzheimer's: forestalling the darkness.

Forestalling violence: Police knowledge of interaction with political activists

Anticipating and forestalling execution failures in structured reactive plans

Chapter 7 Forestalling the demise of empirical economics: The role of microdata in labor economics research

Empathy avoidance: Forestalling feeling for another in order to escape the motivational consequences.

Neo-Liberal Discourse in the Academy: The Forestalling of (Collective) Resistance.

Redefining life while forestalling death: living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator after a sudden cardiac death experie...

Therapist Alienation: Foreseeing and Forestalling Third-Party Dynamics Undermining Psychotherapy With Children of Conflicted Caregiv...

同义词：preventing

造句：

1. The dog, an ungainly mongrel pup, was loping about the road.

那只丑陋的杂种幼犬在马路上到处乱跑。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Paul swam in his ungainly way to the side of the pool.

保罗笨拙地游到池子边。

来自柯林斯例句

3. He was a tall, ungainly boy of 18.

他是个个子高而笨拙的18岁小伙子。

来自《权威词典》

4. I thought him terribly ungainly when he danced.

我觉得他跳舞时显得极其笨拙.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. When the ungainly man had left, he remarked hotly to the messenger.

看着这个无能的人走开以后, 他气冲冲地对着送信人评头品足起来.

来自辞典例句

[ ungainly 造句 ]