head off

英 [hed ɒf]

美 [hed ɔːf]

拦截; 拦住; 防止（尤指不愉快的事）发生

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 拦截;拦住
  If youhead offa person, animal, or vehicle, you move to a place in front of them in order to capture them or make them change the direction they are moving in.
  1. He changed direction swiftly, turned into the hallway and headed her off.
     他迅速改变方向，拐进走廊截住了她。
• PHRASAL VERB 阻止，防止（尤指不愉快的事）发生
  If youheadsomethingoff, especially something unpleasant, you take action before it is expected to happen in order to prevent it from happening.
  1. He would ask Congress to intervene and head off a strike...
     他将要求国会进行干预，防止发生罢工。
  2. You have to be good at spotting trouble on the way and heading it off.
     你必须善于发现潜在的麻烦并加以化解。

英英释义

verb

• prevent the occurrence of
  1. Let's avoid a confrontation
  2. head off a confrontation
  3. avert a strike
  Synonym:debarforefendforfendobviatedeflectavertstave offfend offavoidward off

双语例句

• You put it down nowor I'll blow your head off!
  你现在把它放下要么我崩了你！
• Take your head off my shoulder, son.
  把你的脑袋从我的肩膀上拿开，孩子。
• Yesterday you wanted to bite my head off.
  那昨天你就不会要咬下我的头。
• I'll wring his calf's head off his body with these hands.
  我要用这双手将他那牛脖子拧下来。
• Will you boys stop yelling your head off just outside my window!
  你们这些男孩不要在我窗外高声喊叫好不好！
• Go chop her head off or something.
  快去砍了她的脑袋，会不会。
• He wrenched the fowl's head off.
  他拧下了鸟头。
• It's going to tear its head off!
  它要把他是头扯下来了！
• You blew his head off with a shotgun.
  你用猎枪打爆了他的头。
• I thought that I would laugh my head off, but I had to stop because my sides hurt.
  我以为我会笑的前仰后合的，但我不停下来，我的身体两侧很痛。