to prevent sth from happening or sb from doing sth by doing sth first
Try to anticipate what your child will do and forestall problems.
尽量预见你的孩子会干什么，并预先阻止问题发生。
1.阻止
2.垄断,屯积
3.抢先,占先;先下手
1.to prevent something from happening by saying or doing something before it can happen
1.As if to forestall any more questions, he began to jog through the sand.
象是为了免得对方再多问似的，他索性在沙滩上小跑起来。
2.The question will be how much progress is enough to forestall other measures that people will inevitably start calling for.
目前的问题是，取得多少进展才足以阻止人们开始要求采取其它措施。
3.Even partial success by the time Canadians pack away their barbecues might be enough to forestall an election this year.
在加拿大人收好他们的烧烤时，任何局部胜利都足以在今年的选举中先发制人。
4.Efforts to forestall climate change are slotted into the meandering narrative of a conspiracy against the American way of life.
阻止气候变化的努力，被套上了“颠覆美国生活方式的阴谋”这个帽子。
5.He said nothing about the English attempt to forestall his re-election. His friends said it for him.
他没提英格兰企图预先阻止他再次当选FIFA主席的事，他自有朋友替他说话。
6.Now you are going to say something about law being the worst wilderness of the two, but I forestall you; remember, I have forestalled you.
你是想说法律比这荒地还要荒芜，不过我替你先说出来了。记住，我替你先说出来了。
7.The inability of the Republicans to forestall or fix the crisis was the main reason you won (after your charm and brains, naturally).
共和党无能去预测和解决这场危机。这就是你（民主党）胜出的主要原因。
8.House Speaker N. P. and Republican minority leader J. B. said the measure does what is necessary to forestall further economic damage.
白宫发言人N.P。和共和党少数派领导人J.B。称这项措施对预防进一步的经济危害是必须的。
9.So it should lay out a strategy for restoring the public finances to calm the markets and forestall a rise in bond yields.
政府应该制定为提振公共财政制定一个计划，稳定市场并且防止债券是收益率升高。
10.I needed to engage in any activity I could imagine that would forestall the beginning of adult life.
任何我能想到的会是我成年生命开始的活动我都应该去参加。