avert

英 [əˈvɜːt]

美 [əˈvɜːrt]

v.  防止，避免(危险、坏事); 转移目光; 背过脸

过去分词：averted　过去式：averted　现在分词：averting　第三人称单数：averts　

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牛津词典

verb

• 防止，避免（危险、坏事）
  to prevent sth bad or dangerous from happening
  1. A disaster was narrowly averted.
     及时防止了一场灾难。
  2. He did his best to avert suspicion.
     他尽量避嫌。
• 转移目光；背过脸
  to turn your eyes, etc. away from sth that you do not want to see
  1. She averted her eyes from the terrible scene in front of her.
     她背过脸，不去看面前可怕的场面。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 避免;阻止;防止
  If youavertsomething unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
  1. Talks with the teachers' union over the weekend have averted a strike...
     周末与教师工会举行的谈判避免了一场罢工。
  2. A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
     昨天险些酿成一场新的悲剧。
• VERB 转移（目光等）
  If youavertyour eyes or gazefromsomeone or something, you look away from them.
  1. He avoids any eye contact, quickly averting his gaze when anyone approaches...
     他避免任何眼神接触，一有人靠近就把目光迅速移开。
  2. He kept his eyes averted.
     他的眼睛滴溜溜乱转。

英英释义

verb

• turn away or aside
  1. They averted their eyes when the King entered
  Synonym:turn away
• prevent the occurrence of
  1. Let's avoid a confrontation
  2. head off a confrontation
  3. avert a strike
  Synonym:debarforefendforfendobviatedeflecthead offstave offfend offavoidward off

双语例句

• This article introduces you to a technique that attempts to avert just this sort of disaster.
  本文介绍了一种试图避免这种灾难的技术。
• And that could avert a situation where tens of thousands of Americans would lose their jobs.
  这有可能避免的情况下，成千上万的美国人将失去工作。
• We will have to mitigate and adapt to avert the most extreme scenario.
  我们必须进行缓解和适应，从而避免最极端的情境。
• To avert disasters, governments should take urgent and ambitious actions.
  为了避免灾难发生，政府应该采取迫切和强有力的措施。
• A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
  昨天险些酿成一场新的悲剧。
• But our collective failure to forecast and avert this crisis carries important lessons for the longer term.
  但我们在预测和避免这场危机方面的集体失误，给我们的较长远发展带来了重要教训。
• We should avert failure by hard work.
  我们应该努力工作以避免失败。
• It can avert expensive mistakes or reveal cost savings in the real world.
  这可以避免为错误付出昂贵代价，或展示如何在现实世界中节约成本。
• It is this principle that will help foster the self-discipline needed to avert future crises.
  正是这条原则将有助于培养避免未来危机所需的自律。
• He did his best to avert suspicion.
  他尽量避嫌。