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

• Enough safety protocols functioned to avert an even larger disaster, but the reactors remain unstable.
  全面的安全协议发挥了作用，避免了更大的灾难，但是目前反应堆仍然不稳定。
• 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。
• Several governments announced emergency stimulus packages intended to avert recession.
  一些政府还宣布了旨在避免衰退的一揽子紧急刺激经济方案。
• Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on.
  先生们，为了避免这即将来临的风暴，我们已经做了一切能做的事。
• A Tobin tax would not have prevented the last crisis and will not avert the next one.
  托宾税不可能避免上一次危机，也无法避免下一次危机。
• But there is still time to avert catastrophe, Dr. McCauley and his colleagues also found.
  但我们仍有时间来避免灾难，麦考利博士和同事还发现。
• The critical question is what can be done to avert further confrontation.
  关键的问题是，能采取什么措施来避免进一步的对抗。
• To avert this, the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia cannot be allowed to fail.
  要避免这一局面的出现，我们就不能让埃及和突尼斯的革命失败。
• The world should have learnt enough lessons to avert that.
  世界应该已经汲取了足够的教训来避免危机重演。
• A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
  昨天险些酿成一场新的悲剧。