"Stave" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 五线谱 | wǔ xiàn pǔ | (music) staff / stave |  |
| 短板 | duǎn bǎn | short stave of the barrel (which allows the contents to escape) / (fig.) shortcoming / weak point | |
| 缓 |  huǎn | slow / unhurried / sluggish / gradual / not tense / relaxed / to postpone / to defer / to stall / to stave off / to revive / to recuperate |  |
| 缓兵之计 | huǎn bīng zhī jì | delaying tactics / stalling / measures to stave off an attack / stratagem to win a respite | |
| 谱表 | pǔ biǎo | musical stave | |
| 魔高一丈，道高一尺 | mó gāo yī zhàng , dào gāo yī chǐ | the devil is ten foot tall, virtue one foot (idiom) / It takes constant vigilance to stave off evil. | |
