"Let's avoid a confrontation"
"head off a confrontation"
"avert a strike"
"ward off danger"
1.避开,躲开,防止(危险、疾病等)
Toward off a danger or illness means to prevent it from affecting you or harming you.
e.g. She may have put up a fight to try towardoff her assailant...
她可能进行了顽强的反抗,试图击退袭击者。
e.g. Mass burials are now under way in an effort towardoff an outbreak of cholera.
为防止霍乱爆发正在进行大规模掩埋。
1.
1. 防治,避开:by virtue of 由于 |wardoff 防治,避开 | warm up 变热
2. 防止,避免:shield:保护某人或某物(免遭危险、伤害或不快) |wardoff:防止,避免 | seasonal flu:季节性流感
3. 避开:gown: 长袍 |wardoff: 避开 | academic dress: 学士服