avert 的意思是避免,轉(zhuǎn)移(視線)。
China's factory activity shrank in December for the first time in more than two years, intensifying pressure on Beijing to reverse an economic slowdown and avert massive job losses. 中國(guó)12月份的制造業(yè)數(shù)據(jù)出現(xiàn)兩年多來的首次萎縮,給北京帶來要扭轉(zhuǎn)經(jīng)濟(jì)放緩、避免大量失業(yè)的更大壓力。
The Democratic Republic of Congo's government cut internet connections and SMS services across the country to avert ‘chaos' before the presidential election result. 剛果民主共和國(guó)政府中斷了全國(guó)的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)和短信服務(wù),以避免在總統(tǒng)選舉結(jié)果出來之前出現(xiàn)“混亂局面”。