抵挡，挡开：指抵御（某人或某物）的攻击或侵犯。
fend off // [ fending fended fends ]
动词词组 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. 避开
He looked relaxed and determined as he fended off questions from the world's Press.
他在回避世界媒体的问题时显得气定神闲。
动词词组 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. 挡住 (攻击)
He raised his hand to fend off the blow.
他抬起手挡住了那一击。
避开；挡开-引用次数：6
参考来源证券商的风险与监管
... duck躲避；逃避；回避 fend off挡开；避开 ward off避开；挡开；避免 ...
避开(fend off), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
... fence 栅栏;防护套布;警戒线 fend off 垫开 fend 闪避 ...
架 ... 超越,凌驾 [tower; surpass; override] 挡架,不让进入 [fend off] 两柱之间为一架 [distance between posts] ...
避开；挡开
She managed to fend off questions about new tax increases.
她设法避开了关于新增赋税的问题。
He raised his hand to fend off the blow.
他抬起手挡住了那一击。
Healthy trees are also better able to fend off insects.
健康的树木也能更好地抵御昆虫的侵害。
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.
VOA : standard.2010.05.19
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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Google offered to help Yahoo fend off Microsoft's offer with an advertising alliance with Yahoo.
But even with all the new weapons, can the rebels fend off an air assault?
The new Congress being sworn in today should in turn swear to fend off the assault.