PHRASAL VERB 避开，躲开，防止(危险、疾病等) To ward off a danger or illness means to prevent it from affecting you or harming you. 避开，躲开，防止(危险、疾病等) [Also VERB n PREPOSITION]
She may have put up a fight to try to ward off her assailant. [VERBPREP. noun]
她可能进行了顽强的反抗，试图击退袭击者。
Mass burials are now under way in an effort to ward off an outbreak of cholera. [VERBPREP. noun]