我试着和这个孩子说话时,他避开了我。
他避开最难的问题,而专注于可能达成一致意见的领域。
He skirted the hardest issues, concentrating on areas of possible agreement.
他避开守在看守所外的约二十名记者。
He evaded about 20 reporters waiting for him outside the detention centre.
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。
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