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

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。
No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes.
没有人可以因为他自己视线的转移而轻易切断他与社会的关联。
Averting danger was his responsibility.
危险的转移是他的职责。
When it comes to averting World War III, it's really the least I can do.
当谈到以避免第三次世界大战，这是真的，至少我可以做的。
High value of averting blackouts or price spikes?
避免灯火管制或价格太高的重要意义？
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。
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。
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。
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 age of deterrence is now the age of control, averting catastrophe fron weapons of mass destruction.
控制了这个时代，就如同用军事力量威胁着这个时代，但同时也能防止大规模杀伤性武器带来的灾难。