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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rather sought to avoid them, and gave orders to his party to have their arms in readiness for any trouble.
-- Mind you avoid it all your life, and only employ it in a last extremity."
-- There are many reefs, and it requires great experience to avoid them.
-- "Can we not avoid them by keeping to the shore?
-- Extreme watchfulness and perfect skill were necessary to avoid these submerged rocks, and steer a bark that did not readily answer to the helm, and that constantly broke off.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name.
-- 'Bear in mind, Sir Henry, one of the phrases in that queer old leg-end which Dr. Mortimer has read to us, and avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are ex-alted.'
-- 'The object is to avoid a public scandal.
-- 'The more reason why you should avoid a public inves-tigation.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to disturbing you I shall soon learn to avoid doing that, for I hate disturbing people.
-- This is an affair in which you ought to act honestly with both sides, and give due warning, to avoid compromising others.
-- Of course pocket-money is a necessity, if only a little; do not be angry, prince, if I strongly recommend you to avoid carrying money in your pocket.
-- The general and Totski had agreed to avoid any hasty and irrevocable step.
-- I hardly talk to Gania now, and avoid him as much as I can.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave his orders to the knights first, bidding them hold their horses well in hand, so as to avoid confusion.
-- Let us go away, and thus avoid his anger.'
-- The son of Tydeus then gave way for a little space, to avoid the anger of the god, while Apollo took Aeneas out of the crowd and set him in sacred Pergamus, where his tem-ple stood.
-- Henceforth, however, I must be your host in middle Argos, and you mine in Lycia, if I should ever go there; let us avoid one another's spears even during a general engagement; there are many noble Trojans and al-lies whom I can kill, if I overtake them and heaven delivers them into my hand; so again with yourself, there are many Achaeans whose lives you may take if you can; we two, then, will exchange armour, that all present may know of the old ties that subsist between us.'
-- Idomeneus drew his spear out of the body, but could not strip him of the rest of his armour for the rain of darts that were showered upon him: more-over his strength was now beginning to fail him so that he could no longer charge, and could neither spring forward to recover his own weapon nor swerve aside to avoid one that was aimed at him; therefore, though he still defend-ed himself in hand-to-hand fight, his heavy feet could not bear him swiftly out of the battle.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To avoid a certain indefinable shame she felt at being caught spying about for a position, she quickened her steps and assumed an air of indifference supposedly common to one upon an errand.
-- Indeed, it affected the entire atmosphere of the flat, as such things are inclined to do, and gave to his wife's mind its subdued and tactful turn, anxious to avoid taciturn replies.
-- "I can't avoid business relations, and that's all there is to it."
-- Carrie started at the name, but recovered quickly enough to avoid notice.
-- said Carrie, venturing something to avoid a possible deadly silence.
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