Head off：阻止，攔截

12月21日，印尼和東帝汶共同宣布成立一個聯(lián)合委員會的計劃，希望能就1999年東帝汶獨立全民公決事件引起的大暴亂達成諒解。在那次暴亂中，印尼暴徒殺害了大約1000名東帝汶人。外電報道如下：Indonesia and East Timor announced plans on Tuesday to create a joint commission in hopes of putting behind them a 1999 rampage in which Indonesian gangs killed about 1,000 East Timorese.

In setting up a Commission on Truth and Friendship, the two countries hope to head off a parallel initiative by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is weighing his own expert commission to review whether justice was done after the 1999 violence, their foreign ministers said after talks with Annan.

The violence, carried out by gangs supported by elements in the Indonesian army, was triggered by a referendum in which East Timor voted to break free from Jakarta after 24 years of brutal military rule.

Head off表示“阻止，攔截，使之轉變方向或退回”例如：head off the flock of sheep（上前攔截這群羊）。此外，off one's head表示“過于興奮，精神失�！�。

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