I don't imagine you're worried that these gentlemen will stave in walls that shells from your frigate couldn't breach?

我想，这些钢铁墙壁，就是林肯号战舰的炮弹都不能伤损的，你现在不害怕那些土人先生们会冲进来了吧？

Today, officials in Buenos Aires will announce measures to try and stave off the country's worst economic crisis in decades.

今天，布宜诺斯艾利斯的官员将宣布措施，试图避免该国几十年来最严重的经济危机。

" I wonder if I shall have to stave in this fellow's solar plexus" ?

“我想知道我是否必须刺破这家伙的太阳神经丛”？

It might help you to remember the meaning of this phrasal verb, but, actually, we don't usually use stave off in a literal sense anymore.

这会帮助你记住这个动词短语的意思，但实际上，我们通常不再使用字面意义上的 stave off。

A global policy that targets an optimal migration level could help businesses tap the world's entire labor market for talent and workers- and help stave off steep inflation in the future.

面向最优移民水平的国际政策有助于企业利用全世界的劳动力市场招聘人才和员工——并在未来帮助避免出现急剧的通货膨胀。

But in 1951, Russian pharmacologist Mikhail Mashkovsky discovered that villagers in the Ural Mountains used a plant with a milk-white flower and a black root to stave off paralysis in children suffering from polio.

但在 1951 年，俄罗斯药理学家米哈伊尔·马什科夫斯基 (Mikhail Mashkovsky) 发现，乌拉尔山脉的村民使用一种带有乳白色花朵和黑色根部的植物来预防小儿麻痹症儿童的瘫痪。