to avert
基本解释
- 避免
英汉例句
- He apologized to avert trouble.
他道歉以避免麻烦。 - Yet his impact was no less significant: he helped to avert another revolution of the violent Bolshevik kind.
但他的影响却不可小觑:他曾帮助俄国避免了另一场布尔什维克式的暴力革命。 - So, the more fundamental issue is the systematic failure of the international community to anticipate and respond in a timely manner to avert a major crisis like the famine in the Horn of Africa.
因此,更为根本的问题是国际社会救援机制中的错位,为了避免类似于非洲之角饥荒那样的重大危机应使其及时地参与救援及作出反应。 - To avert an economic collapse, the administration moved forward with a controversial plan to bail out banks deemed too big to fail.
- Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.
即使是缪斯之一克莱俄帕,掌管史诗的女神,也不能避免这样一场人间悲剧。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选 - The next day there was still no ship in sight so Dudley told Brooks to avert his gaze and he motioned to Stevens that the boy, Parker, had better be killed.
又过了一天,依然没有船只的影子,于是达德利叫布鲁克斯转过头去,并示意斯蒂芬斯,最好杀掉派克。
耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选 - The two sides, though, could still reach an agreement to avert such drastic action.
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