avert
avert 英 [əˈvɜ:t] 美 [əˈvɜrt]
vt. 避免，防止；转移
进行时:averting 过去式:averted 过去分词:averted 第三人称单数:averts 名词复数:averts
- To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster — either way, you are avoiding something.
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- vt. 避免，防止；转移
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1. A disaster was narrowly averted.
及时防止了一场灾难。
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2. He did his best to avert suspicion.
他尽量避嫌。
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3. She averted her eyes from the terrible scene in front of her.
她背过脸，不去看面前可怕的场面。
- avert (v.) mid-15c., transitive, "turn (something) away, cause to turn away," from Old French avertir "turn, direct; avert; make aware" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *advertire, from Latin avertere "to turn away; to drive away; shun; ward off; alienate," from ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + vertere "to turn" (from PIE root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend"). Meaning "ward off, prevent the occurrence of" is from 1610s. Related: Averted; averting.
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