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

• There seems no possibility that such action can be averted
  此类行为似乎无法避免。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many stepped on the gas and averted their own gaze and their children's.
  许多人都是一踩油门加速驶过，转移了自己的目光，也让自己的孩子不要去看。
• Disaster was averted when the pilot took action to stop the plane from crashing.
  飞行员采取行动使飞机没有坠毁，避免了大难。
• A war was averted by skilful negotiation.
  巧妙的谈判避免了一场战争。
• That is how the escalation of the disaster was averted.
  正是如此才避免了灾害的扩大。
• He averted his eyes from the scene of the accident.
  他转移目光不再看事故现场。
• Had it not done so, some of the banking disasters of 2007-8 might well have been averted.
  若非如此，我们很可能可以避免2007-08年的某些银行业灾难。
• 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。