avert

verb

1. 防止，避免（危险、坏事）
   to prevent sth bad or dangerous from happening
   1. A disaster was narrowly averted.
      及时防止了一场灾难。
   2. He did his best to avert suspicion.
      他尽量避嫌。
2. 转移目光；背过脸
   to turn your eyes, etc. away from sth that you do not want to see
   1. She averted her eyes from the terrible scene in front of her.
      她背过脸，不去看面前可怕的场面。

1. VERB 避免;阻止;防止
   If you avert something 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。
2. VERB 转移（目光等）
   If you avert your eyes or gaze from someone 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。

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。
3. 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。
4. He kept his eyes averted.
   他的眼睛滴溜溜乱转。
5. Efforts are being made to avert war and find a diplomatic solution
   各方正在为避免战争、寻求外交解决途径而作出积极的努力。
6. He did his best to avert suspicion.
   他尽量避嫌。
7. He managed to avert suspicion.
   他设法避嫌。
8. We should avert failure by hard work.
   我们应该努力工作以避免失败。
9. Enough safety protocols functioned to avert an even larger disaster, but the reactors remain unstable.
   全面的安全协议发挥了作用，避免了更大的灾难，但是目前反应堆仍然不稳定。
10. This article introduces you to a technique that attempts to avert just this sort of disaster.
    本文介绍了一种试图避免这种灾难的技术。
11. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on.
    先生们，为了避免这即将来临的风暴，我们已经做了一切能做的事。
12. This is the future we must avert.
    这是我们必须避免的未来。
13. The world should have learnt enough lessons to avert that.
    世界应该已经汲取了足够的教训来避免危机重演。
14. But there is still time to avert catastrophe, Dr. McCauley and his colleagues also found.
    但我们仍有时间来避免灾难，麦考利博士和同事还发现。
15. The critical question is what can be done to avert further confrontation.
    关键的问题是，能采取什么措施来避免进一步的对抗。
16. But our collective failure to forecast and avert this crisis carries important lessons for the longer term.
    但我们在预测和避免这场危机方面的集体失误，给我们的较长远发展带来了重要教训。
17. It would also avert the threat of a new government shutdown.
    这还将避免政府再次关门的威胁。
18. The government has made no attempt to avert the crisis.
    政府没有作任何努力来避免危机。
19. To avert disasters, governments should take urgent and ambitious actions.
    为了避免灾难发生，政府应该采取迫切和强有力的措施。
20. Several governments announced emergency stimulus packages intended to avert recession.
    一些政府还宣布了旨在避免衰退的一揽子紧急刺激经济方案。
21. It can avert expensive mistakes or reveal cost savings in the real world.
    这可以避免为错误付出昂贵代价，或展示如何在现实世界中节约成本。
22. By common consent, these measures helped avert global economic disaster.
    人们普遍认为，这些措施帮助避免了经济灾难。
23. To avert this, the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia cannot be allowed to fail.
    要避免这一局面的出现，我们就不能让埃及和突尼斯的革命失败。
24. It is this principle that will help foster the self-discipline needed to avert future crises.
    正是这条原则将有助于培养避免未来危机所需的自律。
25. To help avert this tragedy.
    为了帮您避免这种悲剧。
26. A Tobin tax would not have prevented the last crisis and will not avert the next one.
    托宾税不可能避免上一次危机，也无法避免下一次危机。
27. Now, the problem is how we stop the phenomena to happen again and avert?
    现在的问题是我们怎么阻止这种现象的再次出现和转移？
28. I head a slanting, avert from, fiercely sat to get up again.
    我将头一歪，避开了，又猛地坐了起来。
29. And that could avert a situation where tens of thousands of Americans would lose their jobs.
    这有可能避免的情况下，成千上万的美国人将失去工作。
30. We will have to mitigate and adapt to avert the most extreme scenario.
    我们必须进行缓解和适应，从而避免最极端的情境。

verb

1. turn away or aside
   1. They averted their eyes when the King entered

   Synonym:    turn away

2. prevent the occurrence of
   1. Let's avoid a confrontation
   2. head off a confrontation
   3. avert a strike

   Synonym:    debarforefendforfendobviatedeflecthead offstave offfend offavoidward off