sort of takes the cyclicality out of earnings and you can see over history how that multiple has varied.

一定程度上在收益上避免了周期性的,而且你可以看到随着历史的进程,这个倍数发生了多大的变化。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

These are bads of life that could presumably be avoided if only we knew how much exactly we had--how much longer we had.

生命中的一些坏处可以被认为是可避免的,只要我们知道我们到底还有多少，还有多少时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Banks, as I say, are with us to stay; we just have to improve our regulation and disclosure requirements so that banks can be prevented from taking unnecessary risks.

如我所说,银行与我们同在,我们只需要完善对监管,和信息披露需求,这样银行就可以避免追求不必要的风险

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Just want to avoid obvious ties.

可以避免明显的平局情况

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

You need a hero to help you, and having that hero, encountering the other mind as helper, is what obviates the tendency, even in a nice guy like Tony, toward narcissism which is manifest in the "I," "I," "I" at the beginning of the story.

他能帮助你，有了他的帮助，就可以避免自我陶醉的趋势，即便是托尼这么好的人，也可能会有这一趋势,总是用，“我“，“我“，“我“来开头。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You're not going to start for the rest of your life if you ever need to solve a problem with a computer from scratch, odds are you're going to reach for some off the shelf packages or libraries or tools that other people wrote so that people like us don't have to reinvent the wheel again and again.

如果你想用Scratch来解决问题,却使用其他人写的程序,或者利用现成的资料或工具,这样以来,我们的确可以避免做重复性的工作,但却永远学不会编程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选