averting

1. VERB 避免;阻止;防止
   If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
   1. Talks with the teachers' union over the weekend have averted a strike...
      周末与教师工会举行的谈判避免了一场罢工。
   2. A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
      昨天险些酿成一场新的悲剧。
2. VERB 转移（目光等）
   If you avert your eyes or gaze from someone or something, you look away from them.
   1. He avoids any eye contact, quickly averting his gaze when anyone approaches...
      他避免任何眼神接触，一有人靠近就把目光迅速移开。
   2. He kept his eyes averted.
      他的眼睛滴溜溜乱转。

1. He avoids any eye contact, quickly averting his gaze when anyone approaches
   他避免任何眼神接触，一有人靠近就把目光迅速移开。
2. Policymakers can take some comfort in the relative stability of Japan's financial system compared with global fears and apparent success in averting a credit crunch that would add to the troubles of the business sector.
   相对于全球担忧而言，日本金融体系相对稳定，同时日本显然成功避免了信贷紧缩（这将加剧企业界的困境），决策者可以为此感到宽慰。
3. Rather than averting the inevitable in Greece, the urgent task now is to stop contagion spreading to Italy, Spain or Belgium.
   目前的紧急要务是阻止危机蔓延至意大利、西班牙或比利时，而不是避免希腊不可避免的违约。
4. Duty of averting or minimizing losses
   防止和减轻损失的义务
5. When it comes to averting World War III, it's really the least I can do.
   当谈到以避免第三次世界大战，这是真的，至少我可以做的。
6. CIT Group, the big US lender, gave greater reason for hope by averting bankruptcy in a private sector deal with no fresh government money a change from the recent script.
   美国大型贷款机构CIT集团带来了更多抱以希望的理由，该集团通过一宗私人部门交易，无需额外政府资金就避免了破产命运，这改写了近来的纾困脚本。
7. He brokered a non binding agreement with other world powers to fight global warming, averting the collapse of an international summit meeting.
   他与世界上其他力量达成的非绑定协议来对抗全球变换，避免国际首脑会议崩溃。
8. He was leaning away from me, sitting on the extreme edge of his chair and averting his face.
   他倾向远离我的那一侧，坐到了椅子的最边缘，脸也扭到了另一边。
9. Averting her gaze means that she must be angry with me.
   她凝视的转移意味她对你一定很生气。
10. The move, which is aimed at averting a wave of defaults that could have dealt a harsh blow to the Chinese economy, provides detail on how a plan, reported in the financial times last month, will be implemented.
    该指导意见为一份计划（见英国《金融时报》上个月的报道）制定了详细的执行方法，旨在防止可能沉重打击中国经济的违约潮发生。
11. The Chinese government has issued constitutional laws and statutes on disposal of infectious waste for averting pollution.
    为此，我国制定了关于感染性废弃物处理的法律、法规，以避免污染实验室或环境。
12. France has resisted international pressure to shore up its banking sector, as senior ministers have focused their efforts on averting a Greek default.
    在法国高级部长们聚焦于避免希腊违约之际，法国政府顶住了国际上要求其扶持本国银行业的压力。
13. Show finesse in averting a threatened strike Combustion within the populace slowly built up to the point of revolution.
    在避免一触即发的罢工中显示出深谋大略群众的愤怒已到了一触即发来革命的程度。
14. The exception was the large-scale assistance to the financial and auto sectors, especially in the US, which at least had the extenuating argument that the assistance was aimed at averting extinction rather than providing a competitive boost.
    唯一的例外就是对金融业与汽车业的大规模援助，尤其是在美国。但这么做至少有一个情有可原的理由，即援助旨在阻止企业破产，而不是提升它的竞争力。
15. No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes.
    没有人可以因为他自己视线的转移而轻易切断他与社会的关联。
16. Show finesse in averting a threatened strike.
    在避免一触即发的罢工中显示出深谋大略。
17. The age of deterrence is now the age of control, averting catastrophe fron weapons of mass destruction.
    控制了这个时代，就如同用军事力量威胁着这个时代，但同时也能防止大规模杀伤性武器带来的灾难。
18. Proactive stakeholder engagement, including with staff is also viewed as a means of averting compliance issues.
    股东提前介入，包括员工，也是被视为转移合规风险的一个方法。
19. Averting such a crunch and its economic consequences is more about efficiency and government-mandated conservation than a few new finds.
    要避免这种紧缺及其经济后果，更多地要依靠效率和政府的节约指令，而非几个新的发现。
20. The policy prescriptions offered for averting this threat are both absurd and chilling.
    为消除这种威胁，他提出的政策建议荒谬且可怕。
21. 2004-Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in1983.
    2004年的今天，斯坦尼斯拉夫·彼德洛夫因在1983年防止了潜在的第三次世界大战的爆发而获得了世界公民奖。
22. Averting such destructive contagion should be the overwhelming priority.
    避免这种破坏性蔓延应被当作压倒一切的任务。
23. Other store assistants react by averting their gaze and turning away.
    其他商店助理作出反应，避免他们的目光和回避。
24. Averting danger was his responsibility.
    危险的转移是他的职责。
25. High value of averting blackouts or price spikes?
    避免灯火管制或价格太高的重要意义？
26. There seemed to be no way of averting the oncoming crisis.
    似乎没有办法避开即将到来的危机。
27. Averting the disruptive extremes of boom and bust can help bring about long-term growth.
    避开具破坏性的极端景气高低，将有益于长期的经济成长。
28. Greek lawmakers on Thursday approved a tough austerity package aimed at averting a default, but the vote was overshadowed by violent street protests in central Athens and dozens of arson attacks against shops and banks.
    希腊议员们周四批准了一项艰巨的旨在避免违约的紧缩方案。但雅典市中心发生激烈的街头抗议、十多家商店和银行被焚烧，为方案的通过蒙上了一层阴影。
29. In times of crisis, Morgan himself acted as the de facto bank of last resort, stepping in and averting two potential financial crises.
    经济危机时，摩根自己扮演了事实上的最终银行的角色，插手帮助并成功避免了两次潜在的财经危机。
30. These results underscore the value of rescue medications in averting psychotic relapse.
    这些结果显示了救护性治疗对避免精神病复发的价值。

noun

1. the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
   1. averting her gaze meant that she was angry

   Synonym:    aversion

2. the act of preventing something from occurring
   1. averting danger was his responsibility