avoid

英[əˈvɔɪd]美[əˈvɔɪd]

v.避免，防止，躲避，逃避；

第三人称单数：avoids;

过去式：avoided;

过去分词：avoided;

现在分词：avoiding;

例句

Jim was able to keep his anger in to avoid a fight.吉姆控制住了自己的愤怒从而避免了一场争斗。

Nonsmokers should avoid being in smoke-filled rooms.不吸烟者应该避免呆在烟雾弥漫的房间里。

It is part of the chairman's duty to keep each speaker to the point to avoid wasting time.使每位发言人不离题, 少浪费时间, 是**的部分职责。

We capitalised our assets to avoid bankruptcy.我们把资产转作资金以避免破产。

People in that small town avoid talking to outsiders.那个小镇上的人们不愿意与外来的人说话。

The old woman looked directly at the boy and he tried to avoid her searching glance.老大娘直盯着那个孩子,他就尽量避开她那锐利的目光。

Wash everything thoroughly to avoid contamination with bacteria.把所有东西都彻底洗净以避免细菌污染。

Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.为避免重复劳动浪费资源，任务已经重新分派。

I tried to avoid the back room where the undesirable elements were gathered.我尽力避开后屋, 那里聚集了讨厌的人。

Avoid any reference to his illness.千万别提起他的病。

英语六级真题

By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.

But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.

In cases where sewage mud is used, expensive chemical fertilizer use can be avoided.

Frederick's central idea, that stove, sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely, inspired the first fully fitted kitchen, designed in the 1920s by Margarete Schütter-Libotsky.

To reduce or avoid it, researchers have examined the effect of smoking, diet, brain-challenging games, exercise and other strategies.

Social science can also teach politician, how to avoid our collective capacity for self-destructive behaviour.

A recent article in The Harvard Crimson noted the shocking growth of Harvard's public relations arm in the last five years and it questioned whether a focus on risk management and avoiding controversy was really the best outward-looking face of this great institution.

These sorts of innovations can help American universities avoid the perils of success.

They develop green energy to avoid dependence on oil import

The author's second warning is that we should avoid running a greater risk by challenging our boss's anthority.

situations will be able to reach understanding and avoid feeling uneasy about the confrontations

They can avoid doing much of the manual labor.

To avoid fiscal (财*) meltdown, public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back severely and taxes may have to go up.

Try to avoid making a hasty decision

Aspirin, for example, singers should avoid aspirin.

A few precautions can help most climbers avoid altitude sickness.

Also, drink plenty of liquids and avoid tobacco and alcohol

Learning how different cultures signal respect can help you avoid misunderstandings.

Respect is shown by looking in the general direction but avoiding direct eye contact.

Many embarrassing situations could be avoided.

Throughout the body of the speech, Juan dealt only with the basic mechanics of the earthquakes and carefully avoid technical terms.

Asian women prefer to avoid the sun, because being pale or white is considered beautiful, whereas a tanned complexion is considered much more beautiful and sexy in the West.

Banks can save a lot of money and avoid headaches by moving to a cash-free system, and they can also avoid bank robberies, theft, and dirty money.

Hence we avoid the dreaded paralyses by analysis.

Many robots are equipped with high-tech sensors and complex learning algorithms to avoid injuring humans as they work side by side.

Matter and the now more exotic anti-matter would have had little space to avoid each other.

Social science can also teach politicians, how to avoid our collective capacity for self-destructive behaviour.

Subjects played a computerized driving game in which the player must avoid crashing into a wall that materializes, without warning, on the roadway.

Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs.

You certainly shouldn't ditch teamwork, but how can you avoid the hazards of being an over-collaborator?

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

避免,防止（坏事发生）

If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.

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VERB

避免（做…）

If you avoid doing something, you choose not to do it, or you put yourself in a situation where you do not have to do it.

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VERB

躲开（人、事物）；回避（话题）

If you avoid a person or thing, you keep away from them. When talking to someone, if you avoid the subject, you keep the conversation away from a particular topic.

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VERB

（人或车改变方向）避让

If a person or vehicle avoids someone or something, they change the direction they are moving in, so that they do not hit them.

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英汉词典释义

vt.

避开, 避免, 预防

【法律】宣布(判决、抗辩等)无效；使无效；废止，撤销

躲开，避开(人、事物、地方)，回避

英英词典释义

Verb

1. stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something;

2. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;

3. refrain from doing something;

4. refrain from certain foods or beverages;

5. declare invalid;

行业词典

体育： 射闪；

法律： 规避；