A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
避免
Avoid
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
避免战争，因为战争总是使人类落后。
One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.
一个人常常在逃避命运的路上遇见它。
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
世界的时尚是避免成本，而你却遇到了它。
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
没有人能避免衰老，但有效地衰老是另一回事。
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
我倾向于避开电视、政治和有丝绒绳索的地方。
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
如果你想避免看到一个傻瓜，你必须先打破你的镜子。
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
哲学家不应该试图逃避下定决心的责任。
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
幸福的第一个秘诀是:避免对过去进行太长时间的沉思。
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
一个人没有什么办法不去逃避思考的劳动。
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
如果可以避免被打，就不要打;但千万不要打软。
There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
只有一种方法可以避免批评:什么也不做，什么也不说，什么也不做。
I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone, and yet to avoid all eyes.
我意识到自己想要直视每一个人，但又想避开所有人的目光。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
演戏是我的天性，我尽量避免演戏。我不想做我父母做的事，你知道吗?
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
不诚实人的计谋，是献上不需要的祭物，或是献上不可能的祭物，免得献上所需要的。
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
避免痛苦的唯一方法是没有足够的空闲去想自己是否幸福。
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
我做过很多实践人类学的研究，和人们一起住在村子里，并意识到摆脱贫困是多么困难。在贫困的时候，人们用他们的技能来避免饥饿。他们不能用它来进步。
I am a big proponent of writing a great outline. That way you can avoid hitting a roadblock. There is no worse feeling than writing yourself into a corner but if you've figured it all out in the outline then you won't have that problem.
我非常赞成写一个伟大的大纲。这样你就可以避免遇到障碍。没有什么比把自己写在一个角落里更糟糕的了，但是如果你在大纲里把所有的事情都写出来了，那么你就不会有这个问题了。
The thing writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
作家最擅长的事情就是找到避免写作的方法。