To forestall is better than to amend.; Prevention is better than cure.

与其补救于已然，不如防范于未然。

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We must act now to forestall disaster.

我们现在必须采取行动以防灾难。

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First, could it hope to forestall a crisis?

首先，它可以预先阻止危机吗？

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The memos were released - with very little information blacked out - to forestall a court-ordered release under a lawsuit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

These are all international efforts to forestall a financial crisis.

这些是预先阻止金融危机的,国际化努力。

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Israeli analyst Ra'anan Gissin. "The strategic thinking has to be, first of all, to have sufficient intelligence but also the right intelligence, so that we can forestall, so that we can prevent this from happening right from the beginning."

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Is that unusual for the NFL to forestall a punishment and to do its own process?

NPR: Sports World Grapples With Spate of Bad Press

There does not appear to be any signs of a last-minute effort to forestall that.

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It is this guarantee that has done most to forestall an open banking crisis in China.

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