He said it permitted them to avoid the legally binding targets and international supervision proposed by developed countries.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

You would, to avoid the horrors of genocide, you would crash into the five and kill them?

为了避免骇人听闻的种族灭绝，你打算直接开上去把这五个人撞死吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I get so upset when you just try to avoid the problem.

你想逃避这个问题，我还挺生气的。

I get so upset 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But some hotels and ski areas away from the city are offering special rates for people who want to avoid the crowds.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

It's a way to avoid the argument; although, for what it's worth, I should mention I don't myself believe that it's false that we have free will.

这是回避这条论证的一种方法,尽管这条论证有它自身的价值,应该说,我个人认为,人有自由意志,并没有错

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

European officials hope to avoid the crisis that could spread if Greece fails to pay its debts.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

We need to avoid the temptation, in many ways understandable as it might be, to airbrush or sanitize Aristotle, to make him seem more politically correct for modern readers.

我们要避开这个诱惑，虽然在很多方面看来，他可能在经过喷雾与消毒之后较易理解，亚里士多德,也许会对现代的读者变得比较政治正确。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The judge said many consider this a "lawyer's trick" to avoid the ban on the direct patenting of DNA, but the result is the same.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

The slave trade revolving around tobacco or cotton or coffee or sugar would tend to mix slaves and laborers from different language backgrounds, in part deliberately, so as to avoid the possibility of revolt.

为了获得烟草,棉花,咖啡,或糖块的奴隶交易,会将来自不同语言背景的奴隶,和劳动者们混在一起,这也在某种程度上,谨慎地避免了可能的造反

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

People should know the causes of their asthma symptoms and try to avoid these triggers.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

in his great depiction of hell in Books One and Two) to avoid the standard epic scenes of the torture of the damned, for example, with which we're familiar if we've read Homer or Virgil or, of course, Dante much later.

在他第一和第二册书对地狱的精彩描述）,去避免提及传统史诗中关于恶者被折磨的场景，例如我们所熟悉的那些场景,如果我们读过荷马的，维吉尔的，当然还有但丁的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Like other presidents, Franklin Pierce hoped to avoid the issue.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Better to avoid the unstable hammocks altogether, since they're filled with snakes, occasional bears, and flesh-eating plants that, helpfully,feed on mosquitoes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

I don't know a word of Russian, and so I actually try to avoid using the rather well-known Russian equivalents for these terms because I feel like an idiot.

我不懂俄语，所以我不用俄语读,而就用这个英语中通行的俄语替代词,这样感觉是不是挺傻的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A runoff would likely have to be delayed until next year if not held very soon to avoid the impending winter, which would not make balloting logistically possible in much of rural Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The idea of going into battle is not merely to avoid being killed; the purpose is to kill the other fellow.

战场上并不只是防守,更重要的是杀敌斩将

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"The fact that tissue was preserved for more than a few decades helps us to learn more about past disease and actually eventually help to avoid these kinds of diseases in the future."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

But so when I say "family"-- we try to avoid even talking about "the Roman family," because it means something so different to them than what it means to us.

所以我说家庭时-,我们尽量不用来指“罗马家庭“,因为这个词古今意思截然不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"Of course what is important in this turmoil environment is that energy policy and energy common efforts for all Europe are important to avoid a crisis what we do have on the ground and to avoid the possible future crises,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

This little felt thing there is just to avoid too much friction from building up with the plastic or to keep it slightly separated from the case, but that's it. That's all there was to those things called floppy disks.

这种毡制品的目的是避免,由塑料组成所产生的摩擦力,或者保持稍微的距离，这就是我们要说的,软盘的全部内容。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Blatter's doubts about Nigeria's hosting capacities have been made explicit in recent months, based over a year of debate and threats of moving the tournament, during which the country did just enough to avoid the embarrassment of being replaced as host.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

So the other guy is pricing below costs, the way which I avoid making losses is to set my price above his price.

所以另一家公司定价低于成本,我想要避免损失的方法是,将我的价格设定得比它高

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

She nodded her head as she touched and smelled the flowers that her father had been so careful to avoid.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Now, how can the insurance company ever evaluate every house properly to avoid that?

如今，保险公司是如何准确评估,每一个房屋的价值而避免那种情况呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It could help as many as three to four million owners change the terms of their mortgages to avoid foreclosure.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Now we have the dot notation to avoid name conflicts.

现在我们要使用圆点标记法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Still,NACE found no big increase in graduates who plan to stay in school and avoid the job market.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Now many of us are not investors or at least would like to avoid investing with myself included But in the most, this is the most ubiquitous economic decision out there.

我们中许多人都不是投资者,或至少像我一样不想涉及到投资行业里面,但在大多数情况下，这却是经济决策中最普遍的。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

But for Hobbes, we enter into society not in order to fulfill or perfect our rational nature, but rather to avoid the greatest evil, namely death or fear of death, at the hands of others.

但是霍布斯认为，我们进入社会,不是为了实现或完善我们理智的本性，倒不如说是为了避免巨大的罪恶而已，也就是死亡或对死亡的恐惧，掌握在别人手里。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选