英语高级词汇：shun

摘要：可以看出，shun 比大家熟悉的 avoid 多了一层意思：deliberately，所以，shun 指故意避开。

可以看出，shun 比大家熟悉的 avoid 多了一层意思：deliberately，所以，shun 指故意避开。

She shunned publicity / the spotlight since she retired from stage.

告别舞台生涯后，她就淡出了公众的视线。

She was shunned by her family after she remarried.

再婚后，她的家人都躲着她。

He shunned the elevator and started up the stairs.

他不坐电梯，开始爬楼梯。

近义

shun 近义词按难度级别由低到高：

avoid /ə'vɔɪd/：避免 (中学)

escape /ɪ'skeɪp/：逃脱，逃避 (中学)

duck /dʌk/：躲避，避开 (4级)

skirt /skɜːrt/：绕开，回避(话题) (4级)

shy /ʃaɪ/：(因紧张而)回避 (4级)

shrink /ʃrɪŋk/：畏缩，逃避 (4级)

evade /ɪ'veɪd/：逃避，回避 (6级)

dodge /dɒdʒ/：(巧妙)躲避 (6级)

avert /ə'vɜːrt/：避免，转移 (6级)

eschew /ɪs'tʃu:/：(故意)避开 (托福)

shirk /ʃɜːrk/：逃避，推卸 (托福)

elude /ɪ'lu:d/：(机智)避开 (GRE)

当然，你可以用短语来表示，如 stay / keep away from (远离), steer clear of (绕开，避开), brush off (搪塞), have no part in (不参与), give...a wide berth (与...保持距离) 等。

影视

△Gone Girl (《消失的爱人》)

In the evening, she said, the evening of my visit to the Heights, I knew, as well as if I saw him, that Mr. Heathcliff was about the place; and I shunned going out, because I still carried his letter in my pocket, and didn't want to be threatened or teased any more.

- Chapter 15 of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

晚上，她说：就是我去山庄的那天晚上，我知道希刺克厉夫先生又在附近，就像是我看到了他；我不出去，因为我还把他的信搁在口袋里，而且不愿再被吓唬或被挪揄了。

- 艾米丽·勃朗特《呼啸山庄》第15章