phrasal verbphr vPREVENTto do something to try to protect yourself from something bad, such as illness, danger, or attack 防止,抵挡〔疾病、危险或攻击等〕
Don’t forget insect repellent to ward off the mosquitoes.
别忘了带上防蚊子的驱虫剂。
a spell to ward off evil spirits
避邪的咒语
Examples from the Corpus
ward off• The attacker moves in with a roundhouse kick to the head and the defender raises his arm to ward it off.• This she does not permit; now she knows how to ward him off.• None the less to ward them off, lanterns are hung near the surface where the sharksthrash about.• The safeprocedure to ward it off, or so we gathered, was a homeopathic dose of torture.• I hear noise at the ward door, off up the hall out of my sight.