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

• This was averted only by the intervention of TPG representatives.
  正是在TPG代表的干预下才避免了这些问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 kept his eyes averted.
  他的眼睛滴溜溜乱转。
• There seems no possibility that such action can be averted
  此类行为似乎无法避免。
• A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
  昨天险些酿成一场新的悲剧。
• We averted Depression in 2008/ 2009 by acting decisively.
  我们在2008-09年采取果断措施，避免了萧条。