Sometimes asking the right question is all it takes to avoid an argument.

有时候问正确的问题就可以避免一场争吵。

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She wanted at all costs to avoid an argument with her father because he had been so ill.

无论如何，她要 避免同她父亲争吵，因 为他已经病得很厉害了。

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youdao

The report was explicit about the impact on margins in the data, possibly to avoid provoking an inflation argument from those who are waiting for prices to rise so they can sound the alarm.

FORBES: Manufacturing Index Shows Slow Improvement, No Inflation

That's hardly an argument to avoid rebalancing, but it's not much of one for doing it often, either.

FORBES: Magazine Article

There may be an argument for lorry drivers, surgeons and airline pilots to use enhancing drugs to avoid tiredness, for example.

BBC: Concern over 'souped up' human race