- 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.
avert / əˈvɜːt ; NAmE əˈvɜːrt / verb 1 avertsth to prevent sth bad or dangerous from happening 防止，避免（危险、坏事） ◆ A disaster was narrowly averted. 及时防止了一场灾难。 ◆ He did his best to avert suspicion. 他尽量避嫌。 2 ~ your eyes/gaze/face (from sth) to turn your eyes, etc. away from sth that you do not want to see 转移目光；背过脸 ◆ 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 averts averted averting avert / əˈvɜːt ; NAmE əˈvɜːrt /
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