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

• Accident can be averted by careful driving.
  谨慎行车可以避免事故。
• He kept his eyes averted.
  他的眼睛滴溜溜乱转。
• The fact that GM averted a potentially costly strike also buoyed investors.
  通用汽车避免了一场有可能付出极大代价的罢工也让投资者感到欣喜。
• 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。
• Just before Christmas, the airline averted another strike threat by cabin crew over its medical insurance policy.
  就在圣诞节前，该公司刚刚避免了又一起机组人员因公司医疗保险政策而威胁发起的罢工。
• Regulators and politicians have tried to do some of the things that might have averted the last crisis.
  监管者和政界人士试图采取一些本可能会避免上次危机的举措。
• In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, China launched a massive stimulus plan and largely averted a recession.
  2008年金融危机爆发后，中国推出了一个庞大的经济刺激计划，基本上避免了经济衰退。
• That is how the escalation of the disaster was averted.
  正是如此才避免了灾害的扩大。
• Disaster was averted when the pilot took action to stop the plane from crashing.
  飞行员采取行动使飞机没有坠毁，避免了大难。
• Many stepped on the gas and averted their own gaze and their children's.
  许多人都是一踩油门加速驶过，转移了自己的目光，也让自己的孩子不要去看。