英語詞匯

五個表示 “避免” 、“逃避”的動詞

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avoid、escape、evade、shun、avert 這組動詞都含 “避免”、“逃避” 的意思。

avoid “避免”、“躲避”、“逃避”，指事先有準備地避免某事或某行動。需接動名詞作賓

語。

例句：

I try to avoid supermarkets on Saturdays - they're always so busy.

我盡量避開周六去超市 —— 那時總是人特別多。

We left the house early in the hope of avoiding traffic jams.

我們早早地走瞭，希望能避開交通阻塞時段。

Do you think Lukas is avoiding me? I haven't seen him all day.

你認為盧卡斯是不是在躲著我啊？我一整天都沒見到他。

The plane narrowly avoided disaster when one of the engines cut out on take-off.

飛機起飛時一個發動機熄火，差點釀成重大事故。

Other aspects of culture must be researched and understood if marketers are to avoid

blunders.

如果廣告商想要避免失誤，他們就必須研究並瞭解文化的各個方面。

The bus driver swerved to avoid hitting the cyclists.

公共汽車司機突然轉向以避免撞到騎自行車的人。

We all cautiously avoided mentioning the accident before his grand mother.

我們都小心翼翼在他祖母面前避免提到這次事故。

escape “逃避”、“躲避”，基本意思是“逃跑”，可引申出“避免”疾病、痛苦、事故、

“逃脫”災難等。需接動名詞作賓語。

例句：

He stayed in the background to escape from the public attention.

他呆在幕後為瞭避開公眾的註意。

As long as you invest in the share market, you can never escape from the possibility

of losing money.

隻要你投資股票市場, 你就永遠無法避免虧損的可能性。

In my opinion, it is just a wishful desire to escape the order of things.

我認為，這隻是一種想要逃避現實秩序的一廂情願的願望。

From deep within the recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to escape the procedure.

在他大腦深處，喬爾試圖避開這個過程。

Nowadays no one can escape being attracted by advertisements in the streets.

現在沒有人能逃脫在街上被廣告吸引。

evade “逃避”、“回避”，指有意或無意地避開某事。

例句：

It is useless your trying to evade the question.

你用不著回避這個問題。

She is trying to evade all responsibility for her behaviour.

她在試圖逃避應為自己的行為承擔的所有責任。

He tried to evade the embarrassing question by pretending to have an urgent

matter to deal with.

他假裝有緊急的事情要處理，試圖避開這個尷尬的問題。

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

我們可以逃避現實，但不能逃避現實帶來的結果。

He was accused of trying to evade responsibility for the failures of the past five years.

他被指控試圖逃避過去五次失敗的責任年。

His explanation at the meeting was a smokescreen used to evade the real issues.

他在會上作的解釋不過是用來逃避實際問題的煙幕而已。

He is essentially an honest businessman; he will not resort to illegal means to make

profit or evade taxation.

他本質上是一個誠實的商人；他不會采取非法手段獲取利潤或偷稅漏稅。

shun “避開”、出於某種原因有意地避開某人或某事。

例句：

When walking alone during the deep night, you’d better shun dark streets.

深夜獨自行走時,你最好避開黑暗的街道上。

His friends began to shun him for the simple reason that he was involved in deep debts.

他的朋友開始回避他, 理由非常簡單的因為他陷入瞭很大的債務。

After the trial he was shunned by friends and family alike.

審判後，朋友和傢人都躲著他。

In studying a problem, we should shun o subjectivity, one-sidedness and superficiality.

研究問題，要避免主觀性、片面性和膚淺性。

Comments on sensitive or disputed political religious issues should be shunned in

the tour commentary.

導遊詞要避免評論敏感的政治和宗教話題。

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

不論你的生活如何卑微，你都要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。

avert “避免”、“防止”，基本意思“擋開”，常引申出避免、防止災禍、危險等發生。

例句：

There must be immediate action if chaos is to be averted.

要避免混亂就必須立即采取行動。

A global concerted effort is required to avert a global health crisis.

需要全球協同努力，以避免一場全球衛生危機。

Efforts are being made to avert war and find a diplomatic solution.

人們正在努力避免戰爭並尋求外交解決辦法。

Many traffic accidents could have been averted by the courtesy of the drivers.

如果駕駛員懂得禮讓，許多交通事本可以避免的。

In order to avert any possible disaster, all traffic over the harbor bridge is halted during

the typhoon.

為瞭避免任何可能的災難, 在臺風期間所有海港大橋都停止通行。

We must draw a lesson from the tragedy and ponder how to avert the tragedy of this

sort from happening again.

我們必須從這次悲劇中吸取教訓，思考任何避免這種悲劇再次發生。

Several governments announced emergency stimulus packages intended to avert

recession.

一些政府宣佈瞭旨在避免衰退的一攬子緊急刺激經濟方案。