fend off

基本解释

It should use that credibility to fend off weakness now.
它现在应该利用这个公信力来避开美国的弱势。
The next government will have to fend off the credit crunch and redesign the regulation of banks, which may be in worse shape than officials have yet let on.
下届政府须使出浑身解数避开信贷危机，重新制定银行运营规范，当前规章或许比官员隐瞒的还要糟糕。
Protection of the vital oil fields remained a unifying goal, and the United States viewed a more capable Saudi military, one able to fend off regional and domestic threats, as key to attaining it.
保护重要石油地区的安全是两国统一的目标，而美军认为一个能够抵御地区和国内威胁的更加强大的沙特军队，是实现这一目标的关键。

Leaving things as they are in the Arab world, the Institute for Peace study says, will result in cosmetic changes only, allowing autocratic rulers to fend off real democratic change.
This was thought by many to be a positive change but in game rich environments where there was a lot of meat available, people could actually get many more calories per hour-- that is secure more food that would help fend off starvation compared to what they could get for people cultivating food.
很多人都认为这是一个积极的改变,然而在那些富饶地区,获取肉类轻而易举,同样时间内,人类可以获取更多能量,相对那些靠种植获取食物的人类来说,这些地区有足够多的食物来抵御饥荒
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The new Congress being sworn in today should in turn swear to fend off the assault.
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If you fend off unwanted questions, problems, or people, you stop them from affecting you or defend yourself from them, but often only for a short time and without dealing with them completely.
If you fend off someone who is attacking you, you use your arms or something such as a stick to defend yourself from their blows.