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

• A war was averted by skilful negotiation.
  巧妙的谈判避免了一场战争。
• 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。
• He kept his eyes averted.
  他的眼睛滴溜溜乱转。
• The good news is that the worst can still be averted.
  好消息是仍有可能避免出现最糟糕的情况。
• A widespread epidemic has been averted, but much remains to be done and we must remain vigilant.
  虽然一场大规模的流行扩散已经避免，但仍然有许多未完成的工作，我们必须时刻保持警惕。
• You hear this phrase often used to suggest a disaster had been averted.
  你挺这个短语常用来表示“不好的事被避开了”。
• 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。
• 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。
• In many cases, such outbreaks can be averted.
  在许多情况中，可避免此类疫情。
• There seems no possibility that such action can be averted
  此类行为似乎无法避免。