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To eschew something is to stay away from it on purpose — not by accident, not because you forgot, but because you have decided you will not do it or use it. People eschew plastic, eschew violence, eschew cheap jokes. The word is formal and a little old-fashioned; a teacher or a newspaper might use it, a child probably will not. In speech most people just say avoid, or won’t use. Though actually eschew is stronger than a casual avoid: it has a taste of principle, as if you are keeping your hands clean. It does not mean you hate the thing, only that you will not touch it.
戒絕；刻意避開
組成From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman eschiver, from a Frankish word meaning to dread or shun. An old twin of skew. Many people say it with a ‘ch’ or ‘sh’ sound, not ‘sk’.
同家族的字
- skewboth come from an old verb for turning away; skew later came to mean ‘slanted’ or ‘not straight’
原始詞典資料1 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。
eschewverb/ɛsˈt͡ʃuː/
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formalTo avoid; to shun, to shy away from.
- And peraduenture my lady the quene sente for hym to that entente that syr Launcelot shold come to her good grace pryuely and secretely wenynge to her that hit was best so to do in eschewyng & dredyng of sklaunder "And peradventure my lady, the queen, sent for him to that intent that Sir Launcelot should come to her good grace privily and secretly, weening to her that it was best so to do, in eschewing and dreading of slander"
- What cannot be eschew'd must be embrac'd.
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。