averting

英 [əˈvɜːtɪŋ]

美 [əˈvɜːrtɪŋ]

v.  防止，避免(危险、坏事); 转移目光; 背过脸
avert的现在分词

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

noun

• the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
  1. averting her gaze meant that she was angry
  Synonym:aversion
• the act of preventing something from occurring
  1. averting danger was his responsibility

双语例句

• Show finesse in averting a threatened strike Combustion within the populace slowly built up to the point of revolution.
  在避免一触即发的罢工中显示出深谋大略群众的愤怒已到了一触即发来革命的程度。
• When it comes to averting World War III, it's really the least I can do.
  当谈到以避免第三次世界大战，这是真的，至少我可以做的。
• Averting such a crunch and its economic consequences is more about efficiency and government-mandated conservation than a few new finds.
  要避免这种紧缺及其经济后果，更多地要依靠效率和政府的节约指令，而非几个新的发现。
• In times of crisis, Morgan himself acted as the de facto bank of last resort, stepping in and averting two potential financial crises.
  经济危机时，摩根自己扮演了事实上的最终银行的角色，插手帮助并成功避免了两次潜在的财经危机。
• The exception was the large-scale assistance to the financial and auto sectors, especially in the US, which at least had the extenuating argument that the assistance was aimed at averting extinction rather than providing a competitive boost.
  唯一的例外就是对金融业与汽车业的大规模援助，尤其是在美国。但这么做至少有一个情有可原的理由，即援助旨在阻止企业破产，而不是提升它的竞争力。
• Rather than averting the inevitable in Greece, the urgent task now is to stop contagion spreading to Italy, Spain or Belgium.
  目前的紧急要务是阻止危机蔓延至意大利、西班牙或比利时，而不是避免希腊不可避免的违约。
• Policymakers can take some comfort in the relative stability of Japan's financial system compared with global fears and apparent success in averting a credit crunch that would add to the troubles of the business sector.
  相对于全球担忧而言，日本金融体系相对稳定，同时日本显然成功避免了信贷紧缩（这将加剧企业界的困境），决策者可以为此感到宽慰。
• He brokered a non binding agreement with other world powers to fight global warming, averting the collapse of an international summit meeting.
  他与世界上其他力量达成的非绑定协议来对抗全球变换，避免国际首脑会议崩溃。
• Averting such destructive contagion should be the overwhelming priority.
  避免这种破坏性蔓延应被当作压倒一切的任务。
• He was leaning away from me, sitting on the extreme edge of his chair and averting his face.
  他倾向远离我的那一侧，坐到了椅子的最边缘，脸也扭到了另一边。