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单词 circumvent
释义
cir·cum·vent (sûrkəm-vĕnt)
tr.v. cir·cum·vent·ed, cir·cum·vent·ing, cir·cum·vents
1. To surround (an enemy, for example); enclose or entrap.
2. To go around; bypass: circumvented the city.
3. To avoid or get around by artful maneuvering: circumvented the bureaucratic red tape.

[Middle English circumventen, from Latin circumvenīre, circumvent- : circum-, circum- + venīre, to go, come; see gwā- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

circum·venter, circum·ventor n.
circum·vention n.
circum·ventive adj.
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