PHRASAL VERB 避開,躲開,防止(危險、疾病等) To ward off a danger or illness means to prevent it from affecting you or harming you. 避開,躲開,防止(危險、疾病等) [Also VERB n PREPOSITION]
She may have put up a fight to try to ward off her assailant. [VERBPREP. noun]
她可能進行了頑強的反抗,試圖擊退襲擊者。
Mass burials are now under way in an effort to ward off an outbreak of cholera. [VERBPREP. noun]