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

• 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。
• 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。
• Averting the disruptive extremes of boom and bust can help bring about long-term growth.
  避开具破坏性的极端景气高低，将有益于长期的经济成长。
• 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。
• 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 danger was his responsibility.
  危险的转移是他的职责。
• CIT Group, the big US lender, gave greater reason for hope by averting bankruptcy in a private sector deal with no fresh government money a change from the recent script.
  美国大型贷款机构CIT集团带来了更多抱以希望的理由，该集团通过一宗私人部门交易，无需额外政府资金就避免了破产命运，这改写了近来的纾困脚本。
• 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。
• 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。
• France has resisted international pressure to shore up its banking sector, as senior ministers have focused their efforts on averting a Greek default.
  在法国高级部长们聚焦于避免希腊违约之际，法国政府顶住了国际上要求其扶持本国银行业的压力。