I assure you I wouldn't have troubled you if I could have avoided doing so.

我可以向你保证，如果当时我能避免的话，我是决不会麻烦你的。

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Think of something you avoided doing until the last minute: your taxes, for example.

想想哪件事你是不拖到最后一分钟不去做的：比如说，缴税。

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Japan's politicians had umpteen chances to change course; and the longer they avoided doing so, the harder it became.

日本官员有无数次机会来改变路线；他们越是逃避拖延，就会变得越艰难。

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His contemporaries are doing a kind of thing with their representation of the birth of Christ that Milton seems carefully to have avoided.

他的同龄人都在描述基督的诞生,而这正是弥尔顿极力避免的。

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For eight months and a week, Dion avoided doing anything that might cause her to lose the baby.

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Other chemists have avoided doing this because they reckoned that solid dioxide is an insulator and therefore could not be electrolysed.

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Gary Coleman could have avoided this entire fiasco by doing the proper estate planning.

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