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Avoidance is the act of keeping away from someone or something. You can speak of avoidance of a person you do not want to see, or avoidance of a hard question. In money talk, tax avoidance means using the rules to pay less tax. That is not the same as tax evasion, which breaks the law — though actually people mix the two, and newspapers sometimes use the softer word when they mean the harder one. In everyday English it can also mean a habit of backing away from trouble. The word itself is a little formal; in speech people often just say keeping away or not facing it.
迴避；避開（的行為）。講稅時，avoidance 是「避稅」，不是「逃稅」
組成From Middle English avoidaunce, from avoid + -ance, “the act of avoiding.”
同家族的字
- avoidthe verb this noun is built from
- avoidablethe adjective: can be avoided
- unavoidablethe opposite idea: cannot be avoided
原始詞典資料6 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。
avoidancenoun/əˈvɔɪdəns/
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The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
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obsoletelawThe act of annulling; annulment.
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obsoleteThe 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.
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obsoleteThe act of dismissing a person.
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obsoleteThe act of quitting a position or benefice.
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obsoleteThe course by which anything (especially water) is carried off.
- In the Upper Gallery too I wish that there may be, if the Place will yield it, some Fountains running in divers Places from the Wall, with some fine Avoidances.
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。