avoid
avoid 英 [əˈvɔɪd] 美 [əˈvɔɪd]
vt. 避免
进行时:avoiding 过去式:avoided 过去分词:avoided 第三人称单数:avoids
- If you avoid drinking coffee right before bed because it tends to keep you awake and makes you jittery, that means that you stay away from coffee at night.
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- vt. 避免
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1. The accident could have been avoided.
这个事故本来是可以避免的。
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2. They built a wall to avoid soil being washed away.
他们建了一堵墙防止土壤流失。
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3. He's been avoiding me all week.
整整一个星期他一直在回避我。
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4. I left early to avoid the rush hour.
我早早动身以避开交通高峰时刻。
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5. You should avoid mentioning his divorce.
你应该避免提及他离婚的事。
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6. The car swerved to avoid a cat.
那辆车突然一个急转弯以避免轧到一只猫。
- avoid (v.) late 14c., "shun (someone), refrain from (something), have nothing to do with (an action, a scandal, etc.), escape, evade," from Anglo-French avoider "to clear out, withdraw (oneself)," partially Englished from Old French esvuidier "to empty out," from es- "out" (see ex-) + vuidier "to be empty," from voide "empty, vast, wide, hollow, waste," from Latin vocivos "unoccupied, vacant," related to vacare "be empty," from PIE *wak-, extended form of root *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out."
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