forestalling
[fɔ:ˈstɔ:lɪŋ]

v.

先发制人，预先阻止( forestall的现在分词 )；

英英释义

forestalling

• n.the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively

  同义词：obviationpreclusion

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

1. She forestalled my plan to meet her.
   她抢在我前面，使我要去接她的计划落了空。
2. I have my objection all prepared,but Stephens forestall me.
   我已做好准备要提出反对意见，不料斯蒂芬斯却抢先了一步。
3. We must act now to forestall disaster.
   我们现在必须采取行动以防灾难。
4. We installed an alarm system to forestall break-in.
   我们安装了一套警报系统来预防小偷的闯入。

权威例句

Forestalling fibrosis
Forestalling use of duplicate volume identifiers
Alzheimer's: forestalling the darkness.
Forestalling violence: Police knowledge of interaction with political activists
Anticipating and forestalling execution failures in structured reactive plans
Chapter 7 Forestalling the demise of empirical economics: The role of microdata in labor economics research
Empathy avoidance: Forestalling feeling for another in order to escape the motivational consequences.
Neo-Liberal Discourse in the Academy: The Forestalling of (Collective) Resistance.
Redefining life while forestalling death: living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator after a sudden cardiac death experie...
Therapist Alienation: Foreseeing and Forestalling Third-Party Dynamics Undermining Psychotherapy With Children of Conflicted Caregiv...