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单词 avoid
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avoid
verb[T]
uk
/əˈvɔɪd/us
/əˈvɔɪd/
B1
tostayaway from someone or something:
避开；逃避
Itryto avoidsupermarketsonSaturdays- they're always sobusy.我尽量避开周六去超市——那时总是人特别多。
I'manxioustoavoid themotorwayatrushhour.在交通高峰时段，我对高速公路唯恐避之不及。
Do youthinkLukas is avoiding me? I haven'tseenhim allday.你认为卢卡斯是不是在躲着我啊？我一整天都没见到他。
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to avoid someone or something
  • avoidHave you been trying to avoid me?
  • steer clear ofI suggest steering clear of yellow snow.
  • keep/stay clear ofKeep clear of her - she’s got flu.
  • stay away fromThe experience was so bad that she stayed away from men for two years.
  • shunThe best companies are run by people who shun the limelight.
  • shunYou'll be shunned and totally isolated if you don't join in.
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B2
topreventsomething fromhappeningor to notallowyourself to do something:
避免；防止
[+ -ing verb]Itryto avoid goingshoppingonSaturdays.我尽量不在周六去购物。
Thereportstudiouslyavoided anymentionof thecontroversialplan.这份报告有意避而不谈那个有争议的计划。
Theplanenarrowlyavoideddisasterwhen one of theenginescutout ontake-off.飞机起飞时一个发动机熄火，差点酿成重大事故。
Ileftthepubto avoid afight(=preventafightfromhappening).我不想动手打架，就离开了酒吧。
Unnecessarypaperworkshould be avoided(=prevented)at allcosts.应该尽可能避免不必要的文书工作。
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to avoid doing something
  • avoidAvoid swimming in areas where sharks are known to congregate.
  • evadePlease don’t think I’m trying to evade my responsibility.
  • dodgeHe tried to dodge his military service.
  • run away fromI didn't often run away from difficult decisions.
  • shrink fromI've never been one to shrink from a challenge.
  • sidestepThis is not a responsibility you can sidestep.
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to prevent something from happening
  • preventVaccination will prevent the spread of the disease.
  • avoidLabel the boxes to avoid confusion.
  • stopThis should stop any further trouble.
  • avertWe had to act quickly to avert disaster.
  • prohibitBehavioural problems in the classroom prohibit learning.
  • checkChildren are being vaccinated in an attempt to check the spread of the disease.
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More examples
  • If we set off earlytomorrowmorningwe'll avoid most of thetraffic.
  • Thebusdriverswervedto avoidhittingthecyclists.
  • We need toexaminehow anaccidentlike this can be avoided in thefuture.
  • Try to avoidfoodswhichcontaina lot offat.
  • He took a differentroutewhich avoids thecitycentre.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving in order to avoid contact
  • avoidsomethinglike the plagueidiom
  • avoidance
  • bypass
  • circumnavigate
  • clear
  • dodge
  • duck
  • duck and dodge(something)idiom
  • duck and weaveidiom
  • evasive
  • evasively
  • evasiveness
  • fall
  • fall back
  • jump
  • sidestep
  • skirt
  • steer
  • steer clear ofsomeone/somethingidiom
  • weave
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Idiom

avoidsomethinglike the plague
(Definition ofavoidfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

avoid| American Dictionary

avoid
verb[T]
us
/əˈvɔɪd/
tostayaway from someone or something, orpreventsomething fromhappening, or notallowyourself to do something:
Do youthinkRobert is avoiding me? I haven’tseenhim for amonth.
Itryto avoid goingshoppingonSaturdaysbecause thestoresare socrowded.
If youwanttoloseweight, avoideatingbetweenmeals.

avoidance

noun[U]us
/əˈvɔɪ·dəns/
The avoidance ofinjuryis moreimportantthanwinningagame.
(Definition ofavoidfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

avoid| Business English

avoid
verb[T]
uk
/əˈvɔɪd/us
totrytopreventsomethingbadfromhappening:
Aspokeswomanfor thecompanysaid it washopingto avoidindustrialaction.
Understandingdifferingviewpointsis a goodstarttoward avoidingconflictin theworkplace.
totrynot to do something, or totrytostayaway from something:
Thegovernmentavoided themistakesthey made in the past.
avoid doing sthCreditcardscan be asourceoffreecreditif you canorganizepaymentswithin thestipulatedtimelimits, so as to avoidpayinginterest.
(Definition ofavoidfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofavoid

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Excessive lettering should be avoided on the figure and should be inserted in the legend.
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The next section introduces another device called a lexical entry automaton, which is an elaborated form of trunks, for avoiding the computability problem.
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At this stage, acknowledgements, self-references and other forms of self-identification should be avoided.
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To estimate a smooth function, while avoiding overfitting the data, we can impose a smoothing penalty.
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In fact, in both pragmatics and sociolinguistics more generally, the term "ritual" is usually avoided.
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The synonyms file provides more specific information so that the generation of certain irrelevant concepts can be avoided.
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Many of the workgroups struggled with the challenge of keeping the coding ' general purpose ' and avoiding theory-specific feature tags.
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The discussion was not always easy to control but, in order to move ahead with the work, this couldn't be avoided.
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The sound material cannot then be avoided, being the voice of the processes of nature.
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Spatial separation is one of these guidelines (in addition to avoiding frequency masking and maintaining some temporal-textural difference between simultaneous sounds).
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The status of arrangement today, however, is quite different; in new music, arrangement is mostly avoided and perceived as unfashionable.
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Computing interferences are avoided by imposing structural constraints under the form of simple rules.
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Both the individual and the community approach were above all driven by the aim of avoiding this major risk.
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As with the universal property, the primary application of the fusion property is as a proof principle that avoids the need for inductive proofs.
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In most respects the two approaches (parsimony or avoiding a possible omitted variable problem) trade off.
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