avoidance
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How to pronounce avoidance in British English:
英 [əˈvɔɪdəns]
How to pronounce avoidance in American English:
美 [əˈvɔɪdns]
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- Noun:
- deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
单词词源
- avoidance (n.)
- late 14c., "action of emptying," from avoid + -ance. Sense of "action of dodging or shunning" is recorded from early 15c.; it also meant "action of making legally invalid," 1620s; "becoming vacant" (of an office, etc.), mid-15c.
双语例句
- 1. Accident avoidance is the most-obvious example , but there are others .
- 2. Like the others , it 's an avoidance mechanism .
- 3. I am not alone in this dance of avoidance .
- 4. They can be used for collision detection or avoidance .
- 5. They play a decisive role in almost all plant growth processes , including the shade avoidance reaction .