Avoidance
[ə'vɒɪdəns] or [ə'vɔɪdəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.
整理:莎丽--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of annulling; annulment.
(n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
(n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
(n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
(n.) The courts by which anything is carried off.
格里菲思校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They had not met since the day of the Van Osburgh wedding, and on his side the avoidance had been intentional. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- No one referred to it, and this tacit avoidance of the subject kept it in the immediate foreground of consciousness. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Lambert imagines that all these bodies have exactly the volume, weight, position, direction, and speed necessary for the avoidance of collisions. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- She saw that the mute avoidance had begun. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- For the avoidance of this, holy marriage festivals will be instituted, and their holiness will be in proportion to their usefulness. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Selden's avoidance of Miss Bart had not been as unintentional as he had allowed his cousin to think. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It was all dexterity and avoidance with them, which made the fight pretty enough to look on, but scarcely exciting from an English point of view. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Here is another set of ideas, ideas of repulsion and avoidance, that sprang up almost inevitably in men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:内奥米