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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was leaning away from me, sitting on the extreme edge of his chair and averting his face.
  他倾向远离我的那一侧，坐到了椅子的最边缘，脸也扭到了另一边。
• 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。
• Duty of averting or minimizing losses
  防止和减轻损失的义务
• High value of averting blackouts or price spikes?
  避免灯火管制或价格太高的重要意义？
• 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。
• There seemed to be no way of averting the oncoming crisis.
  似乎没有办法避开即将到来的危机。