Avoid

(verb.) stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; 'Her former friends now avoid her'.

(verb.) refrain from doing something; 'She refrains from calling her therapist too often'; 'He should avoid publishing his wife's memories'.

编辑:特伦斯

• I say this here for two reasons--because I hope to avoid the critical attack of the genuine Marxian specialist, and because the observation is, I believe, relevant to our subject. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Why do you always avoid Mr. Tudor? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• To avoid difficulties it is always us who do it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• To save her from misconstruction, cruel misconstruction, that even my friends have not been able to avoid, becomes my duty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Low, as if to avoid making a noise and attracting attention. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I know wherever a board is loose, and will avoid it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• For this reason I avoided this high-born damsel. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Even then, I would have avoided the room where they all were, but for its being the neat-tiled kitchen I have mentioned more than once. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I listened to the patient's breathing, and avoided answering. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Public attention was shifted and a political crisis avoided. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In all countries, a severe inquisition into the circumstances of private persons has been carefully avoided. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• An old philosophical friend of mine was grown, from experience, very cautious in this particular, and carefully avoided any intimacy with such people. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a-- I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, A clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• As I saw she would go on, I thought it best to try to be serviceable to her by meeting the theme rather than avoiding it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In two's the men would approach each animal selected, avoiding as far as possible its heels. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They went out by another staircase, avoiding the lodge; and coming into the front court-yard, now all quiet and deserted, gained the street. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The course of action is not intrinsically satisfying; it is a mere means for avoiding some penalty, or for gaining some reward at its conclusion. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They serve to put us upon correcting the faults we have, and avoiding those we are in danger of having. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• As he spoke he felt that she was looking at him, and he turned his eyes to hers in order not to appear to be avoiding them. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• They are _mighty_ onpleasant; but, as I manages business, I generally avoids 'em, sir. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Can he possibly preserve a right to that character, if by fraud, stratagem, or contrivance, he avoids that payment in whole or in part? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It is put into or out of action in an instant, saves labor and time, and avoids the heat and discomfort of a coal stove during the hot months of summer. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• These conditions are provided for by conducting the evaporation in a vacuum, which lowers the evaporating temperature and avoids contact with the air. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• And yet no wonder that he avoids me, believing what he must about me. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• A dog, that avoids fire and precipices, that shuns strangers, and caresses his master, affords us an instance of the first kind. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The average person avoids fatty foods in summer, knowing from experience that rich foods make him warm and uncomfortable. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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