avoid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 避免, 逃避，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without glancing at anyone, and not even nodding to Zossimov, who had for some time been making signs to him to let the sick man alone, he went out, lifting his hat to the level of his shoul-ders to avoid crushing it as he stooped to go out of the door.
-- You saw Zossimov went away just now to avoid irritating me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thanked him, and took my seat at the board; but found itextremely difficult to handle my knife and fork with anything likedexterity, or to avoid splashing myself with the gravy, while hewas standing opposite, staring so hard, and making me blush inthe most dreadful manner every time I caught his eye.
-- Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.'
-- As Mr. Wickfield glanced towards her,sitting at the tea-table by Agnes, she seemed to me to avoid hislook with such unwonted hesitation and timidity, that his attention 263became fixed upon her, as if something were suggested to histhoughts.
-- 'No, Rosa, not a word!Let the man listen to what I say!My son,who has been the object of my life, to whom its every thought hasbeen devoted, whom I have gratified from a child in every wish,from whom I have had no separate existence since his birth,- totake up in a moment with a miserable girl, and avoid me!To repaymy confidence with systematic deception, for her sake, and quit mefor her!To set this wretched fancy, against his mother's claimsupon his duty, love, respect, gratitude- claims that every day andhour of his life should have strengthened into ties that nothingcould be proof against!Is this no injury?'
-- As to Miss Murdstone,' for I hadalluded to her in the letter, 'I respect that lady's vigilance, and feelobliged to her; but she has strict charge to avoid the subject.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead of forgetting him, his behaviour was such that she could not avoid the internal suggestion of 'Can it really be as my brother imagined?
-- 'So scrupulous for others,' he continued, 'and yet so care-less for herself!She wanted me to nurse my cold by staying at home to-day, and yet will not promise to avoid the danger of catching an ulcerated sore throat herself.
-- Emma had not had time even to think of Mr. Elton, and she was so completely surprized that she could not avoid a little start, and a little blush, at the sound.
-- Smiles of intelligence passed between her and the gentle-man on first glancing towards Miss Fairfax; but it was most prudent to avoid speech.
-- She could not but hear; she could not avoid answering, 'Till I have a letter from Colonel Campbell,' said she, in a voice of forced calmness, 'I can imagine nothing with any confidence.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
-- But, unfortunately, when you try not to speak in jest you are amusing just as when you wish to avoid seriousness you sometimes say a sensible word."
-- It is scarcely necessary to state that Gabriel could not avoid noting the farmer's bearing to-night towards their entertainer.
-- The sergeant retreated to avoid receiving back his gift, which she held out persistently towards him.
-- He looked such an extraordinary object in this guise that, flurried as she was, she could not avoid laughing outright.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had noticed the inflection in her husband's voice, and knew that it would not be safe to retire to the boudoir; like all women who are compelled to study their husbands' characters in order to have their own way, and whose business it is to know exactly how far they can go without endangering a good understanding, she was very careful to avoid petty collisions in domestic life.
-- Eugene had yet to learn that no one in Paris should present himself in any house without first making himself acquainted with the whole history of its owner, and of its owner's wife and family, so that he may avoid making any of the terrible blunders which in Poland draw forth the picturesque exclamation, "Harness five bullocks to your cart!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was my temper to avoid a crowd and to attach myself fervently to a few.
-- The porter opened the gates of the court, which had that night been my asylum, and I issued into the streets, pac-ing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view.
-- And yet you are still unhappy and still avoid our society.
-- My father yielded at length to my desire to avoid soci- ety and strove by various arguments to banish my despair.
-- Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing your-self in science and discoveries.
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