You can also ward off something or stave off something.

你也可以避开或者延缓某事。

Coffee might stave off cognitive decline.

咖啡可以避免认知能力下降。

I knew that helped stave off depressive episodes.

我知道这会帮助我摆脱抑郁。

And there are ways to try to stave them off.

有很多方法可以避免这些噩梦。

The expression we're going to look at is 'stave off'.

我们要学的短语是“stave off”。

Tea, apples, and berries could stave off age-related memory loss, study suggests.

研究表明，茶、苹果和浆果可以延缓与年龄有关的记忆力丧失。

We have 'keep something at bay', 'stave off', and 'drive'.

我们有“避免某事发生”、“避开”和“驱使”。

And we certainly don't want to ward or stave you off!

而且我们当然也不想要躲开你。

He said this was necessary to stave off a catastrophic economic collapse.

他表示，这对于避免阿富汗出现灾难性的经济崩溃是必要的。

Broadly speaking, the genes less active in the lonely were those involved in staving off viral infections.

一般来说，孤独的人体内活力较低的基因是那些帮助人们避开病毒感染的基因。