averted
避けられた
解説 Definition
averted は avert（避ける、防ぐ、そらす）の過去形・過去分詞で、形容詞として「避けられた、防がれた」という意味です。危険、事故、災害など望ましくない出来事が起こらずに済んだことを表します。
Prevented from happening, especially when referring to an approaching accident, crisis, disaster, or other undesirable event. It is the past-tense and past-participle form of avert and commonly appears in passive constructions.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 avert「危険を防ぐ・視線をそらす」に規則語尾 -ed を付けた過去形・過去分詞で、発音は /əˈvɜːrtɪd/ のように語尾が /ɪd/ になります。a crisis was averted、an accident was averted の受け身を一まとまりで覚え、起こりかけた悪い事態の向きが変えられた場面を描きます。
Start from avert, meaning “to prevent” or “to turn away,” and add the regular -ed ending; because the verb ends in /t/, the ending is pronounced /ɪd/. The word’s historical image is a change of direction away from danger. Picture a warning turning an approaching accident aside before it occurs. Learn the common passive combinations a crisis was averted, disaster was averted, and an accident was averted. Unlike avoided, averted often suggests that the unwanted event was already threatening or close to happening.
例文
A serious accident was averted by the quick warning.
すばやい警告によって重大な事故は避けられました。
The crisis was averted after both sides agreed to talk.
双方が話し合いに応じたことで、危機は回避されました。
The nurse's careful check meant that a mistake was averted.
看護師が注意深く確認したため、ミスは防がれました。
averted の類義語・関連語
averted の語源・成り立ち Etymology
averted は avert の過去分詞形で、ラテン語 avertere にさかのぼります。ab-「離れて」+ vertere「向きを変える」で「そらす・避ける」が生まれ、そこから「避けられた」の意味になります。関連語は divert、convert です。
Averted is the regular past-tense and past-participle form of avert. Avert came through French from Latin avertere, formed from ab-, “away,” and vertere, “to turn.” Its literal sense was therefore “to turn away.” This physical idea remains in averting one’s eyes, while the figurative development produced the sense “to prevent”: a danger is turned away before it can become an actual event. Divert and convert share the Latin root vertere.
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