What must be avoided at all costs is that this city becomes nothing but a tourist destination.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The structural moment of concentration on the code for its own sake cannot be avoided, and literature necessarily breeds its own formalism.

集中在代码上的结构瞬间,因为它本身的原因不可避免，文学必要地导致了它自身的形式主义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If only you had seen the light and stuck to the soul theory of personal identity, all these problems could be avoided.

如果你们能够领悟真谛，接受灵魂理论，这些麻烦就自然消失了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Representative Donald Payne, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, said further violence can be avoided only if Somalis from all three regions of the country come together: "As we gather today many Somalis continue to be displaced, maimed and killed.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

It can't simply be avoided. This is Eve's and Areopagitica's argument.

这是不可避免的，这是夏娃和《论出版自由》的论点。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Serbian president said there will be an investigation into how Mr.Mladic avoided arrest for so long.

VOA: special.2011.05.28

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

Two thousand nine may be remembered as the year the world avoided an economic depression.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

it has avoided bankruptcy so far." It all depends,says Faulkner, on whether the damaged well can be fixed, the spill stopped permanently and how well clean-up operations go.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27