1 to resist

2 to obstruct

3 to hinder

4 to keep off

5 to block (a blow)

6 to get in the way of

7 cover

8 gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)

1 to spread out

2 vendor's stand

1 to stop

2 to resist

3 to obstruct

1 see also: 势不可当 shì bù kě dāng

1 street stall with goods laid out on the ground

1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action

2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation