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

• 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。
• 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。
• The move, which is aimed at averting a wave of defaults that could have dealt a harsh blow to the Chinese economy, provides detail on how a plan, reported in the financial times last month, will be implemented.
  该指导意见为一份计划（见英国《金融时报》上个月的报道）制定了详细的执行方法，旨在防止可能沉重打击中国经济的违约潮发生。
• Policymakers can take some comfort in the relative stability of Japan's financial system compared with global fears and apparent success in averting a credit crunch that would add to the troubles of the business sector.
  相对于全球担忧而言，日本金融体系相对稳定，同时日本显然成功避免了信贷紧缩（这将加剧企业界的困境），决策者可以为此感到宽慰。
• These results underscore the value of rescue medications in averting psychotic relapse.
  这些结果显示了救护性治疗对避免精神病复发的价值。
• Other store assistants react by averting their gaze and turning away.
  其他商店助理作出反应，避免他们的目光和回避。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。