averted

英 [əˈvɜːtɪd]

美 [əˈvɜːrtɪd]

v.  防止，避免(危险、坏事); 转移目光; 背过脸
avert的过去分词和过去式

过去式：averted　

COCA.32536

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。

双语例句

• Regulators and politicians have tried to do some of the things that might have averted the last crisis.
  监管者和政界人士试图采取一些本可能会避免上次危机的举措。
• She averted her face: he apparently put some question which she had no mind to answer.
  她把脸掉过去，显然他提出了一些她不想回答的问题。
• There seems no possibility that such action can be averted
  此类行为似乎无法避免。
• The relief policy had averted starvation, no doubt, but suicide, personal quarrel, unhappy homes.
  救济政策无疑缓解了饥饿，但却不能阻止厌世自杀、互相争吵、家庭不和。
• 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。
• He kept his eyes averted.
  他的眼睛滴溜溜乱转。
• Many promotional errors could have been averted had this warning been heeded.
  如果注意到这一点，许多推销中的差错本来是可以避免的。
• The fact that GM averted a potentially costly strike also buoyed investors.
  通用汽车避免了一场有可能付出极大代价的罢工也让投资者感到欣喜。
• And struck a deal which averted military action.
  他们达成了一个协议，可以避免军事行动。
• He averted his eyes from the scene of the accident.
  他转移目光不再看事故现场。