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averting

/uh-vurt/US // əˈvɜrt //UK // (əˈvɜːt) //

避免了,避免,避开,避免的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to turn away or aside: to avert one's eyes.
    • : to ward off; prevent: to avert evil;to avert an accident.

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Examples

  • If, however, 50 high-income countries around the globe hogged the first 2 billion doses, only 33 percent of deaths would be averted.

  • This means that if you donate $100, you can avert around 857 metric tons of CO2.

  • That degree of preparation is meant to speed the delivery of vaccines and avert more deaths.

  • The two have now stepped back from the brink, averting a showdown, but they are likely preparing for another round.

  • A new study argues that nations can help avert the biodiversity and climate crises by preserving the roughly 50 percent of land that remains relatively undeveloped.

  • There is cautious optimism that this prompt action may have helped avert a broader outbreak.

  • President Obama said Libya had to be attacked to avert a genocide in Benghazi.

  • Sometimes, even before shots are fired, Interrupters can predict and avert crisis, according to Slutkin.

  • And they believe in tougher sanctions precisely because they want to avert war.

  • But over the next two months, watch them avoid making tough debt choices to avert another shutdown, says Peter Beinart.

  • He and he alone, they imagined, could avert that dismemberment of which they could not bear to think.

  • Every rail and post was utilized for hitching, and Town-marshal Pease, his star displayed, patrolled the town to avert disorder.

  • Startled and wondering, David dared not long avert his eyes from the opposite bank.

  • Besides, he wanted them to warn the Apaches out of the neighborhood and thus avert from his head the vengeance of Manga Colorada.

  • I fear that any legal proceedings you may resort to will hardly avert the publicity you seem to fear.