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

• By common consent, these measures helped avert global economic disaster.
  人们普遍认为，这些措施帮助避免了经济灾难。
• 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。
• 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。
• This is the future we must avert.
  这是我们必须避免的未来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• To help avert this tragedy.
  为了帮您避免这种悲剧。
• 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。
• 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。