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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The policy prescriptions offered for averting this threat are both absurd and chilling.
  为消除这种威胁，他提出的政策建议荒谬且可怕。
• 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。
• High value of averting blackouts or price spikes?
  避免灯火管制或价格太高的重要意义？
• 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。
• Duty of averting or minimizing losses
  防止和减轻损失的义务