to avoid

基本解释

She sheered off in time to avoid an accident.
轮船及时转向，避免了一次事故。
To avoid miscarriage you'd better register your letter.
为了避免误投，你还是将信挂号寄出为好。
You can easily fake up an excuse to avoid going out with him.
为避免同他一起外出，你可以很容易地编造一个借口。

Lately there have been accusations that some private, competitive liberal arts colleges are trying to avoid being seen as "too female."
The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.
饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。
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I don't know a word of Russian, and so I actually try to avoid using the rather well-known Russian equivalents for these terms because I feel like an idiot.
我不懂俄语，所以我不用俄语读,而就用这个英语中通行的俄语替代词,这样感觉是不是挺傻的。
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