PHRASAL VERB To ward off a danger or illness means to prevent it from affecting you or harming you. 阻挡 (危险、疾病等)
She may have put up a fight to try to ward off her assailant.
她可能进行过一场搏斗,试图击退袭击者。
He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.
他出于挡住这一击的无谓企图抬起了他的胳膊。
Many people swear by vitamin C's ability to ward off colds.
很多人深信维生素C能预防感冒。
She may have put up a fight to try to ward off her assailant.
她可能进行过一场搏斗,试图击退袭击者。
The sad thing is that the majority of people that are killed by malaria are children because there immune system is not strong enough to ward off this infection."
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The superfluous action suggests that there was something more at stake, perhaps, than Saint Ebba's attempt to ward off sexual assault.
过多的行动表明,有比,圣人Ebba试图保护自己不受侵犯更有风险的东西。
You blame yourself as a victim of trauma for not having the sufficient vigilance in your outer cortex to ward it off.
你会因为你的脑皮层,不能有效保护你不受创伤危害,而成为创伤受害者。
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