to avert

基本解釋

He apologized to avert trouble.
他道歉以避免麻煩。
Yet his impact was no less significant: he helped to avert another revolution of the violent Bolshevik kind.
但他的影響卻不可小覷：他曾幫助俄國(guó)避免了另一場(chǎng)布爾什維克式的暴力革命。
So, the more fundamental issue is the systematic failure of the international community to anticipate and respond in a timely manner to avert a major crisis like the famine in the Horn of Africa.
因此，更為根本的問(wèn)題是國(guó)際社會(huì)救援機(jī)制中的錯(cuò)位，為了避免類(lèi)似于非洲之角饑荒那樣的重大危機(jī)應(yīng)使其及時(shí)地參與救援及作出反應(yīng)。

To avert an economic collapse, the administration moved forward with a controversial plan to bail out banks deemed too big to fail.
Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.
即使是繆斯之一克萊俄帕，掌管史詩(shī)的女神，也不能避免這樣一場(chǎng)人間悲劇。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
The next day there was still no ship in sight so Dudley told Brooks to avert his gaze and he motioned to Stevens that the boy, Parker, had better be killed.
又過(guò)了一天，依然沒(méi)有船只的影子,于是達(dá)德利叫布魯克斯轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)頭去,并示意斯蒂芬斯，最好殺掉派克。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 公正課程節(jié)選

The two sides, though, could still reach an agreement to avert such drastic action.
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