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

• 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。
• There seems no possibility that such action can be averted
  此类行为似乎无法避免。
• 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。
• 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”。
• That is how the escalation of the disaster was averted.
  正是如此才避免了灾害的扩大。
• He averted his eyes from the scene of the accident.
  他转移目光不再看事故现场。
• Had they done that before we could have averted a lot of this crisis.
  如果他们之前就这么做，我们就能在很大程度上避免这场危机。
• A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
  昨天险些酿成一场新的悲剧。
• 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。
• 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。