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。
• You hear this phrase often used to suggest a disaster had been averted.
  你挺这个短语常用来表示“不好的事被避开了”。
• The relief policy had averted starvation, no doubt, but suicide, personal quarrel, unhappy homes.
  救济政策无疑缓解了饥饿，但却不能阻止厌世自杀、互相争吵、家庭不和。
• 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。
• 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。
• A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
  昨天险些酿成一场新的悲剧。
• There seems no possibility that such action can be averted
  此类行为似乎无法避免。
• She averted her eyes from the picture.
  她转移目光不再看那幅画。
• 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。