staving ['steɪvɪŋ]

例句:

• Many families are staving and that fact that their families are just too large to sustain.
  很多家庭正挨饿,事实是他们的家庭人口太多无法支撑.
  
• The credit crisis that began in mid - September unwound any hopes of staving off a recession.
  开始于九月 中旬 的信用危机毫无例外的没有避开衰退.
  
• The WHO says it has succeeded in staving off major outbreaks of communicable diseases.
  来自VOA
• The Egyptian Government has finally given the go-ahead for Centamin to resume exports, staving off a potential cash crisis.
  来自THETIMES
• The presumption was that staving off near-term pain would lead to ever more spectacular collapse.
  来自NEWYORKER