Avoidance

(noun.) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.

整理:莎丽

• Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 维莱特.
• They had not met since the day of the Van Osburgh wedding, and on his side the avoidance had been intentional. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• No one referred to it, and this tacit avoidance of the subject kept it in the immediate foreground of consciousness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Lambert imagines that all these bodies have exactly the volume, weight, position, direction, and speed necessary for the avoidance of collisions. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• She saw that the mute avoidance had begun. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• For the avoidance of this, holy marriage festivals will be instituted, and their holiness will be in proportion to their usefulness. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Selden's avoidance of Miss Bart had not been as unintentional as he had allowed his cousin to think. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• 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. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Here is another set of ideas, ideas of repulsion and avoidance, that sprang up almost inevitably in men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:内奥米