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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were prepared for scars, disfigurements, tangible horrors, but nothing!The bandages and false hair flew across the passage into the bar, making a hobbledehoy jump to avoid them.
-- They saw Mrs. Hall fall down and Mr. Teddy Henfrey jump to avoid tumbling over her, and then they heard the frightful screams of Millie, who, emerging suddenly from the kitchen at the noise of the tumult, had come upon the headless stranger from behind.
-- I had caught a cold, and do as I would I could not avoid an occasional sneeze.
-- I turned about, no longer aimless, and went circuitously in order to avoid the busy ways, towards the back streets north of the Strand; for I remembered, though not very distinctly where, that some theatrical costumiers had shops in that district.
-- I walked fast to avoid being overtaken.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stared at me with his nether lip dropping, and looked so wilfully stupid of a sudden that it came into my head that he desired to avoid my questions.
-- A broadening gap of green water appeared under me, and I pushed back with all my strength to avoid falling headlong.
-- He left the room by the outer door, as if to avoid opening the inner one again.
-- By chance, one hopping to avoid us leapt into the hole caused by the uproot-ing of a wind-blown tree; before it could extricate itself we managed to catch it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GUN BULLOCKS Those heroes in their harnesses avoid a cannon-ball, And what they know of powder upsets them one and all; Then we come into action and tug the guns again Make way there way for the twenty yoke Of the Forty-Pounder train!
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hey-ward yielded the guidance of the canoe implicitly to the scout, who approached or receded from the shore, to avoid the fragments of rocks, or deeper parts of the river, with a readiness that showed his knowledge of the route they held.
-- My charger is either a prey to the beasts of the for-est, or he sees his danger, without the power to avoid it.
-- Heyward, perceiving that the eyes of his companion were warily fastened on the rest of the band, fell back imme-diately, in order to avoid the appearance of any suspicious confederacy with their leader.
-- 'Cannot we make a circuit to avoid the danger,' asked Heyward, 'and come into our path again when it is passed?'
-- Magua, who knew how to avoid the more pressing dan-gers, and also to elude pursuit, entered the woods through a low ravine, where he quickly found the Narragansetts, which the travelers had abandoned so shortly before, await-ing his appearance, in custody of a savage as fierce and malign in his expression as himself.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Robert Strickland's innocent biography that it is difficult to avoid feeling a certain sympathy for the unlucky parson.
-- To avoid the tedium of dining tete-a-tete, to give their servants a rest, because there was no reason to refuse, because they were "owed" a dinner.
-- One would admire his excellent qualities, but avoid his company.
-- Sometimes he had to stumble along the bed of the stream, and sometimes he had to push through shrubs, dense and thorny; often he was obliged to climb over rocks in order to avoid the hornet-nests that hung on the trees over his head.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We must avoid showing ourselves before knowing with whom we have to deal," replied Cyrus Harding.
-- Besides, Cyrus Harding hoped later to establish an hydraulic apparatus, which would avoid all fatigue and loss of time, for the inhabitants of Granite House.
-- To avoid it the colonists had been obliged to make a considerable detour, by climbing up to the source of the Red Creek.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few stragglers from the theatres hurried by, and now and then I turned aside to avoid some noisy drunkard as he reeled homewards, but these interruptions were not frequent and soon ceased.
-- If he should return there was no lock or bolt upon the door, and if, distrustful of having left some money yet behind, he should come back to seek for more a vague awe and horror surrounded the idea of his slinking in again with stealthy tread, and turning his face toward the empty bed, while she shrank down close at his feet to avoid his touch, which was almost insupportable.
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