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

• 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。
• 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 Chinese government has issued constitutional laws and statutes on disposal of infectious waste for averting pollution.
  为此，我国制定了关于感染性废弃物处理的法律、法规，以避免污染实验室或环境。
• 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。
• High value of averting blackouts or price spikes?
  避免灯火管制或价格太高的重要意义？
• The move, which is aimed at averting a wave of defaults that could have dealt a harsh blow to the Chinese economy, provides detail on how a plan, reported in the financial times last month, will be implemented.
  该指导意见为一份计划（见英国《金融时报》上个月的报道）制定了详细的执行方法，旨在防止可能沉重打击中国经济的违约潮发生。
• 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。
• 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。
• Duty of averting or minimizing losses
  防止和减轻损失的义务
• 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。