| 单词 | avert |
| 释义 | avert (once / 338 pages) 1v 2v To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster — either way, you are avoiding something. The verb avert comes from Latin roots that mean "to turn away from." Averting has that sense of deflecting, turning away, or preventing something (usually bad) from happening. You might put salt on an icy sidewalk to avert accidents, or you might avert a toddler's meltdown by supplying a lollipop. WORD FAMILYavert: aversion, avertable, averted, averting, averts+/aversion: aversions USAGE EXAMPLESHowever, there is no critical moment at which the disaster hits or will be averted. Slate(Dec 26, 2016) Separately, Australia says it averted a terrorist plot in Melbourne — possibly on Christmas Day — with the arrest of five people. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) We avert our eyes and pretend they are not there. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) 1 v turn away or aside 2They averted their eyes when the King entered Syn|Hyper turn away turn change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense v prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening avert a strike Syn|Hyper avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent keep from happening or arising; make impossible |
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