为避免引起不必要的注意，他把声音压低了。

To avoid attracting unwelcome attention he kept his voice down.

《牛津词典》

他听到当汽车刹车为避免撞车时轮胎发出了刺耳的尖声。

He heard tyres squeal as the car braked to avoid a collision.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

为避免延误，她希望无关紧要的事不被掺杂进灾害救济立法程序中。

To avoid delays, she wanted the disaster relief legislation to be kept free of extraneous matters.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

But Moses refuses to accept the offer, and instead he defends the Israelites, and he averts their destruction.

但是摩西拒绝上帝提供的机会,为犹太人进行辩护，努力的避免被毁灭。

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Call them towns for the sake of argument, sounds too urban, but call them that.

称这些为城镇是为了避免引起争议,听起来太城市化了,不过就这么叫吧

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We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

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