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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Show finesse in averting a threatened strike.
  在避免一触即发的罢工中显示出深谋大略。
• 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。
• 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。