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

• 2004-Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in1983.
  2004年的今天，斯坦尼斯拉夫·彼德洛夫因在1983年防止了潜在的第三次世界大战的爆发而获得了世界公民奖。
• 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。
• The age of deterrence is now the age of control, averting catastrophe fron weapons of mass destruction.
  控制了这个时代，就如同用军事力量威胁着这个时代，但同时也能防止大规模杀伤性武器带来的灾难。
• Averting danger was his responsibility.
  危险的转移是他的职责。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。