averted

英 [əˈvɜːtɪd]

美 [əˈvɜːrtɪd]

v.  防止，避免(危险、坏事); 转移目光; 背过脸
avert的过去分词和过去式

过去式：averted　

COCA.32536

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。

双语例句

• You hear this phrase often used to suggest a disaster had been averted.
  你挺这个短语常用来表示“不好的事被避开了”。
• But in eight months we have averted disaster and created a platform for private sector recovery: a serious achievement.
  但8个月来，我们避免了灾难，为私人部门复苏搭建了一个平台：这是一个重大的成就。
• Accident can be averted by careful driving.
  谨慎行车可以避免事故。
• Disaster was averted when the pilot took action to stop the plane from crashing.
  飞行员采取行动使飞机没有坠毁，避免了大难。
• Many promotional errors could have been averted had this warning been heeded.
  如果注意到这一点，许多推销中的差错本来是可以避免的。
• The fact that GM averted a potentially costly strike also buoyed investors.
  通用汽车避免了一场有可能付出极大代价的罢工也让投资者感到欣喜。
• A war was averted by skilful negotiation.
  巧妙的谈判避免了一场战争。
• Had they done that before we could have averted a lot of this crisis.
  如果他们之前就这么做，我们就能在很大程度上避免这场危机。
• The good news is that the worst can still be averted.
  好消息是仍有可能避免出现最糟糕的情况。
• A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
  昨天险些酿成一场新的悲剧。