及物動詞：避開、避免、防止
常見搭配詞：
- avoid the risk
避開風險 - avoid contact / confrontation / conflict
避免接觸 / 對抗 / 衝突 - avoid doing something
避免做… - avoid getting / becoming
避免成為
例句：
- I try to avoid doing the shopping on Saturdays.
我儘量避開在星期六去買日用品 - She wants to avoid any contact with her ex-boyfriend.
她想避免與前男友有任何接觸 - To stay healthy, she avoids eating out.
為了保持健康，她都不外食 - He avoided his teacher as much as possible.
他儘量避開他的老師 - Pregnant women should avoid smoking and drinking.
懷孕婦女應該避免抽煙跟喝酒 - We avoided Park Road because of the traffic.
我們不走公園路，因為那裡交通阻塞 - The boy narrowly avoided being run over by the car.
哪個男孩差點被車輾過 - She’s trying to avoid getting sick.
她正在努力保持健康，不要生病
同義詞：
- escape 逃開 vt. 更直接或更迫切地需要遠離某事
- keep … away from 避開 vt.
- shun 避開、避免 vt. 故意遠離或拒絕
- steer clear of 避開 – 遠離以避免
- dodge 躲開、迴避 vt. 快速或巧妙地避開
- evade 逃避、迴避 vt. 通過聰明或狡猾來逃避
- flee 逃離 vi. vt. 為了逃避而逃離
- Sidestep 側步避讓 – 為了避免而移動到一邊
- Forego 放棄 vt. 放棄某事或不做
衍生字
- avoidable 可以避免的 adj.
- avoidance 逃避、迴避 n.
