It won't be pretty, but it could stave off some much uglier alternatives.
这种做法不见得漂亮，但可以避免一些非常讨厌的选择。
This will clean the blade, stave off rusting, and add weeks of shaving life.
这将会清洁刀片、防止生锈，延长几周使用寿命。
Some companies are coming up with creative solutions to stave off such predicaments.
一些公司则出台了一些很富有创意性的方法来设法阻止这些事情的发生。
There's no sense of straining to stay awake or to stave off sleep. I'm simply not sleepy.
并没有那种持续的竭力保持清醒，从而延缓睡觉的感觉，我根本就没有睡意。
Acquiring patents is often used as a defense tactic to stave off lawsuits from competitors.
收购专利技术经常被用来当作一种防守策略从而躲避竞争对手的诉讼。
Though there were failures, too, it seemed as if good management could stave off the tragedy.
虽然也有一些失败的例子，但是看起来好的管理可以避免悲剧发生。
Eating fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids doesn't appear to stave off the blues in women, U.S. researchers have found.
美国研究人员发现，鱼类虽富含omega-3，但多吃鱼并不能有效降低妇女抑郁症。
Even if you don't learn a second language until after middle age, it can still help stave off dementia, York's Bialystok said.
即使中年后才学习第二种语言，它仍然可以帮助延缓老年痴呆症，纽约的比亚韦斯托克说。
Since this wasn't a meal, but rather like a late afernoon snack meant to stave off hunger, finger foods were the common fare.
由于这不是一顿饭，而更像是一顿傍晚时分为避免饥饿而食用的小吃，因此摆放的食物通常都是可以用手拿着吃的。
In order to stave off a disaster and get Haiti on its feet again, the world needs to respond in rapid and coordinated fashion.
想消除灾难带来的的影响，并帮助海地恢复正常，我们需要全世界做出迅速而协调的回应。
It could also be an attempt to stave off speculative capital inflows by showing that renminbi appreciation is not a one-way bet.
此举也可能意在阻挡投机资金流入，其方式就是宣示：押注人民币升值并非稳赚不赔。
But dermatologists say there are simple and inexpensive ways to stave off premature aging and its attendant wrinkles and loss of collagen.
但是皮肤科医生说有简单廉价的方法可以避免过早衰老、皱纹丛生以及胶原蛋白流失。
Dr Prager said there were several simple steps which could stave off computer face such as regular screen breaks and stretching the neck muscles.
普拉杰医生说，有几种简单的方法可以延缓“电脑脸”的到来，诸如定期离开电脑屏幕休息一下，伸展颈部肌肉。
Throughout the system there would be ways of warming things up and injecting antifreeze to stave off the formation of icelike methane hydrates.
整个系统都要有介质加热和注入防冻液的途径，以避免形成类似冰的甲烷水合物（译者注，即可燃冰）。
Tonic food is food which is consumed to improve one's well-being, or stave off sickness, particularly at times when one is more prone to illness.
食补是指通过食用某些食物以增进健康，或防止疾病，尤其在人容易生病的时候。
Dr Gary Arendash, an American neuroscientist, claims to have uncovered evidence that caffeine not only helps to stave off the disease but can treat it.
美国神经系统科学家，Gary Arendash博士，对外称发现了相关证据以证明‘咖啡因不仅有助预防疾病，还能有效治疗疾病’。
A study on British volunteers shows that some people are genetically predisposed to stave off the illness, while others are struck down year after year.
在对英国一些志愿者进行的研究表明，一些人天生就不易感冒，而另外一些人则每年都会被流感侵袭。
So the conclusion that I am most cautious about making is giving the idea that somehow working crossword puzzles is going to stave off Alzheimer's disease.
所以要下“玩填词游戏能避免阿兹·海默症”这种结论，我是非常谨慎的。
The World Bank's projections assume that efforts by the IMF and European institutions will stave off a default or major European sovereign debt restructuring.
世界银行的预测假定国际货币基金组织和欧洲各机构的努力将会防止出现债务违约或欧洲主权债务的重大重组。
Meanwhile Spain, which has unveiled spending cuts to try to stave off any potential bail-out, will record growth of 0.8% this year and 1.6% in 2012, the IMF said.
同时，IMF表示，此前宣布削减开支尽量避免任何可能的援助计划的西班牙今年将增长0.8%，2012年为1.6%。
After determining the cause of hearing loss, the researchers combed through published literature to see what kind of intervention might stave off free radical damage.
研究了听力衰退的成因之后，研究者们梳理已发表的文章，以期找出可能避免自由基损伤的方法。
He has spent a full 60 days thus far considering a request from General Stanley McChrystal, Nato commander in Afghanistan, for another 44, 000 troops to stave off defeat.
迄今，他已花了整整60天来考虑阿富汗北约指挥官斯坦利·麦克克里斯托将军(Stanley McChrystal)关于增兵44 000人以避免失败的请求。
Sweet cocktails help to stave off the melancholy of their parting. The graduates sing karaoke to songs by Jennifer Lopez or old Western hits from the days when the wall still stood.
甜美的鸡尾酒消解了离别的愁绪，毕业生们唱起了卡拉ok，她们唱的是珍妮弗•洛佩兹的歌，还有柏林墙没有倒塌时就流传的老西部歌曲。
A recent survey by Mintel, a market-research company, concluded that 37% of women under the age of 34 use products intended to stave off signs of ageing-and they spend more as the years go by.
市场研究公司“明特尔”最近进行的一项调查表明，有37%的34岁以下女性，为了消除岁月留下的痕迹使用美容产品，而且用在这方面的花费每年都在增加。
A recent survey by Mintel, a market-research company, concluded that 37% of women under the age of 34 use products intended to stave off signs of ageing-and they spend more as the years go by.
市场研究公司“明特尔”最近进行的一项调查表明，有37%的34岁以下女性，为了消除岁月留下的痕迹使用美容产品，而且用在这方面的花费每年都在增加。
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