forestall [fɔ:rˈstɔ:l]

例句:

• Try to anticipate what your child will do and forestall problems.
  尽量预见你的孩子会干什么，并预先阻止问题发生。
  来自《权威词典》
• To forestall is better than to amend.
  与其补救于已然,不如防范于未然.
  
• Try to forestall their questions.
  尽量不让他们问问题(作到先发制人).
  
• I would forestall the launch of a national campaign.
  来自VOA
• No amount of intellectual engineering can forestall the inevitable.
  来自SA
• Eventually, it will, to forestall inflation.
  来自WSJ