averts

英 [əˈvɜːts]

美 [əˈvɜːrts]

v.  防止，避免(危险、坏事); 转移目光; 背过脸
avert的第三人称单数

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

• Be sure where your next step will fall so that you will not stumble. You should think of danger in time of peace. To think so can lead to preparation and preparation averts calamities.
  保持居安思危的思想以便你不会失足。居安思危，思则有备，有备无患。
• For the former involves smaller losses and has the advantage that preparedness averts peril and puts us in a fundamentally invincible position. Whatever it takes, this is going to hurt.
  因为后者的损失较之前者为小，而其利益，则是有备无患，根本上立于不败之地。无论怎样，都会有损伤。
• Even assuming that Congress averts a plunge over the edge, no one knows how it will happen.
  即便假设国会最终避免了联邦财政坠入万劫不复的深渊，也没有人知道这一幕的具体情形。
• This technology is efficient, averts the need for multiple phone calls and the mailing of information.
  这种科技足以减少询问电话和索要结果的邮件。
• A gift in secret averts anger;
  暗中送的礼物，挽回怒气；
• In the review of hypothesis, the Bayesian statistic inference solves the problem of deciding test statistic in classical statistic inference, averts the problem of stopping rule and its specialty in induction.
  在假说检验上，贝叶斯统计推理解决了经典统计中存在的检验统计量的选择难题；避免了停止法则带来的困难并凸显了归纳特性。
• Social Capital, based on trust, norms of reciprocity and networks of civic engagement, can promote collective action and averts the "hitchhike" to reduce transaction costs and improve action efficiency.
  社会资本理论基于信任、互惠规范和公民参与网络的社会资本，可以促进集体行动，规避和约束集体行动中的搭便车行为，从而有效地节约了交易成本，提高了行动效率。