forestalled

英 [fɔːˈstɔːld]

美 [fɔːrˈstɔːld]

v.  预先阻止; 在(他人)之前行动; 先发制人
forestall的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 预先阻止;抢在…之前行动
  If youforestallsomeone, you realize what they are likely to do and prevent them from doing it.
  1. O'Leary made to open the door, but Bunbury forestalled him by laying a hand on his arm...
     奥利里想去开门，但是邦伯里抢先一把摁住了他的胳膊。
  2. Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations.
     广场上驻守着大批警察以防止任何示威活动。

双语例句

• How can disasters be forestalled when designing future metros?
  未来之设计如何防灾？
• Pairing of the XY starts at early pachytene and completes at middle pachytene. The disappearance of XY chromosome is forestalled as compared with autosomal SC at later pachytene.
  XY染色体的配对起始于早粗线期，成熟于中粗线期，在晚粗线期先于常染色体解联会；XY-SC开始解体于晚粗线期。
• Stock investment is its main business, and operational system is a focal point, so the tendency of risk should be forestalled;
  证券投资是其主要业务，运作制度是重点，应防止风险倾向；
• Disrupting it thus forestalled the risk of creating anything nasty.
  破坏它提前防止了引起麻烦问题的危险性。
• The fact that there are troubled banks from the us to Europe, Japan and Australia could hardly have been predicted or forestalled by a US regulator.
  从美国到欧洲、从日本到澳大利亚，都有银行陷入困境，这个事实几乎不可能被美国的一个监管机构预测到或事先加以阻止。
• At the same time, regulation of the financial sector was improved and regional and systemic risks were forestalled.
  同时，完善金融监管，坚决守住不发生区域性系统性风险的底线。
• The government forestalled criticism by holding a public enquiry into the matter.
  政府对那件事进行了一次公开调查，预先避免了受批评。
• He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China.
  他能别出心裁，他沤小绿肥来培植一些稀有珍贵的美洲的和中国的灌木，在这方面他超过了苏兰日·波丹。
• The two names had been forestalled by La Fontaine.
  这两个名字都是拉封丹①预见了的。
• Mosquito breeding can be forestalled by killing the insect at its adult or and larval pupal stages.
  把蚊子的成虫或及幼虫蛹杀灭，可防止蚊子滋生。