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

• 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。
• Averting danger was his responsibility.
  危险的转移是他的职责。
• Other store assistants react by averting their gaze and turning away.
  其他商店助理作出反应，避免他们的目光和回避。
• Greek lawmakers on Thursday approved a tough austerity package aimed at averting a default, but the vote was overshadowed by violent street protests in central Athens and dozens of arson attacks against shops and banks.
  希腊议员们周四批准了一项艰巨的旨在避免违约的紧缩方案。但雅典市中心发生激烈的街头抗议、十多家商店和银行被焚烧，为方案的通过蒙上了一层阴影。
• High value of averting blackouts or price spikes?
  避免灯火管制或价格太高的重要意义？
• Duty of averting or minimizing losses
  防止和减轻损失的义务
• No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes.
  没有人可以因为他自己视线的转移而轻易切断他与社会的关联。
• 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。
• Averting her gaze means that she must be angry with me.
  她凝视的转移意味她对你一定很生气。
• There seemed to be no way of averting the oncoming crisis.
  似乎没有办法避开即将到来的危机。