ward off
抵挡,抵御,挡住,抵制
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Definitions
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- : to turn aside or repel; avert
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Examples
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
And yet as Robert Ward discovered, Marvin—for all of his larger-than-life machismo—was surprising in real life.
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
At the usual hour that night the employés of Stickle and Screw left work and took their several ways home ward.
Just as the Admiral was going, Ward (of the Intelligence) crossed over with a nasty little damper.
Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
The suggestive remarks of Mr. Ward do not appear hitherto to have attracted the attention they deserve.