防止壞事發生
同樣是「閃開」，只是閃開的對象從人事物換成「一件正要發生的壞事」：你提前處理，讓那個壞結果根本來不了。
prevent · verb · B1
To stop something bad from happening, or to keep it from happening.
避免
核心畫面
Picture yourself seeing something coming — a person you don't want to meet, a on the path, a mistake about to happen — and deliberately steering around it so it never reaches you. The core of avoid is this 'keep myself clear of it' move: you act ahead of time so the unwanted thing doesn't touch you, happen to you, or get done by you.
可以想成你看到某個東西正朝你來——一個你不想碰到的人、路上的一灘水、一個快要犯下的錯——於是你刻意繞開它，讓它根本碰…更多收起
可以想成你看到某個東西正朝你來——一個你不想碰到的人、路上的一灘水、一個快要犯下的錯——於是你刻意繞開它，讓它根本碰不到你。avoid 的核心畫面比較像這個「讓自己離它遠遠的」動作：你提前出手，使那個不想要的人事物不會碰到你、不會發生在你身上、也不會被你做出來。不管是繞開一個人、防止壞事發生，還是故意不去做某件事，骨子裡都是同一個「閃開、別讓它沾上」的動作。From the picture
故意不去做
再把「閃開」轉到自己的行為上：要繞開的對象是「某個動作」，你刻意選擇不去做它，尤其是不該做或會惹麻煩的事。
refrain from doing · verb · B1
To choose on purpose not to do something, especially something wrong or harmful.
避免（不去做）
Also in this word
stay away from · verb · B1
To stay away from a person, place, or thing, or to not use something.
躲開 / 避開
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
avoidverb/əˈvɔɪd/
- 1
To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
- 2
To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
- I avoided the slap easily.
- One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.
- 3
To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
- I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
- What need a man foreſtall his date of griefe / And run to meet what he would moſt avoid?
- 4
To try not to do something or to have something happen.
- Then he realized, by the immobility of the other children and by the way they avoided looking at him, that it was he who was selected for punishment.
- 5
obsoleteTo make empty; to clear.
- If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and auoide thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee.
- 6
lawTo make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
- But Y seie, this testament is confermed of God; the lawe that was maad after foure hundrid and thritti yeer, makith not the testament veyn to auoide awei the biheest.
- […] how can those graunts of the Kings be avoyded, without wronging of those lords, which had those lands and lordships given them?
- 7
lawTo defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- […] in an action for treſpaſſing upon land whereof the plaintiff is ſeiſed, if the defendant ſhews a title to the land by deſcent, and that therefore he had a right to enter, and gives colour to the plaintiff, the plaintiff may either traverſe and totally deny the fact of the deſcent; or he may confeſs and avoid it, by replying, that true it is that ſuch deſcent happened, but that ſince the deſcent the defendant himſelf demiſed the lands to the plaintiff for term of life.
- 8
obsoleteTo emit or throw out; to void.
- […] the citie of Memi where is a great caue oꝛ denne in the which is a ſpꝛynge oꝛ fountayne that continually auoydethe a great quantitie of Bitumen […]
- […] a Toad piſſeth not, nor doe they containe thoſe urinary parts which are found in other animals, to avoid that ſerous excretion; […]
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteTo leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
- Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel
- 1565, Thomas Stapleton (translator), The History of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman, Antwerp, Book 5, Chapter 20, pp. 178b-179, […] the bishop commaunded al to auoide the chambre for an houre, and beganne to talke after this manner to his chaplin […]
- 10
obsoleteTo get rid of.
- Whanne Y was a litil child, Y spak as a litil child, Y vndurstood as a litil child, Y thouyte as a litil child; but whanne Y was maad a man, Y auoidide tho thingis that weren of a litil child.
- […] expell out of your thoughts all douts, auoid out of your minds all feare; and like valiant champions aduance fooꝛth your ſtandards, […]
- 11
obsoleteTo retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
- The devyll […] ſayde vnto hym: all theſe will I geve the / iff thou wilt faull doune and woꝛſhip me. Thẽ ſayde Ieſus vnto hym. Avoyd Satan.
- Pray you poore Gentleman, take vp ſome other ſtation: Heere’s no place for you, pray you auoid: Come.
- 12
obsoleteTo become void or vacant.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。