| 英语单词 | eschew |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ɪs'tʃuː] 美 [ɪs'tʃuː] |
| 中文释义 | vt.避开;回避;戒绝 |
| 英语例句 | (1) They must take the vow of absolute continence and eschew all thought of greed and lust. (2) Even companies that eschew formal open-source licenses engage in open practices in order to attract outside developers and business partners. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他们必须发誓要绝对禁欲,避开所有贪婪和欲望的想法。 (2) 为了吸引外部开发者和商业伙伴,甚至那些回避开源许可证的公司也参与开放实践。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If you eschew something, you deliberately avoid it. If you live the bohemian life in the city, then most likely you eschew the suburbs. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Eschew comes from a word meaning dread, or shun. So to eschew something isn’t simply to avoid it, the way you would avoid walking in a puddle––it's stronger than that. You eschew things that you find morally or aesthetically wrong, or that you have chosen to find wrong. A dieter might eschew a chocolate sundae, not because he doesn’t like it, but because he’s afraid of what it will do to his waistline. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]躲开;躲避 If you eschew something, you deliberately avoid doing it or becoming involved in it. [V n] [FORMAL 正式]
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