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单词

avert

读音
əˈvɜːrt
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词根

"avert" 这个词来源于拉丁词根 aver(向远离你的方向移动)。你可以看到这个词根在其他词如:aversion(厌恶,排斥), avertable(可防止的)也有出现。

释义

vt. 避免,防止;转移 [ 第三人称单数 averts 现在分词 averting 过去式 averted 过去分词 averted ]

例句

He did his best to avert suspicion.
他尽量避嫌。
The aim of the current round of talks is to promote free trade and to avert the threat of increasing protectionism.
本轮会谈的目的是促进自由贸易,消除日益加剧的贸易保护主义的威胁。
They discovered the danger in time, and made shift to avert it.
他们及时发现了危险,并设法避免了。

强化记忆

由于avert的发音非常接近它的意思——避开、防止,如果你能够把这两者关联起来,对于记忆avert这个词将非常有帮助。"avert"这个词来自拉丁的"avertĕre",意思是‘转过去’或‘转开’,具有转向或转移的意义。在中世纪英语中,avert 被引入可能是为了表达转移视线或防止某事发生的概念。

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He added, "I hope this evil can be averted."Can we avert it?There are companies working on novel antibiotics,
We need to reduce C02 emissions in ten to fifteen years by 80 percentin order to avert catastrophic effects.And I am astounded that I'm standing here to tell you that.
so that terrible things don't come down the roadwithout us taking action to avert them,I thought this is a good place for us to talk.
shore up resilienceand avert emissions at the same time.Women are the primary farmers of the world.
We are not going to avert environmental collapseif the people most affected by pollution
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