circumvent
vt. 围绕,包围; 用计防止; 避免; (用欺骗手段)陷害
If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
Military planners tried to circumvent the treaty.
军事策略家们企图绕开这一条约。
If you circumvent someone, you cleverly prevent them from achieving something, especially when they are trying to harm you.
Roosevelt occasionally attempted to circumvent him.
罗斯福偶尔会试图避开他。
1. surround so as to force to give up;
2. beat through cleverness and wit;
3. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);
This is a deliberate attempt to circumvent my authority.
这是故意想超越我的权限的行为.
Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulation.
船只在外国注册以逃避有关雇佣和安全的规定.
Research efforts continue at many university and industrial laboratories to circumvent these technical problems.
许多大学实验室和工业实验室继续努力研究克服这些技术难题.
Private direct investment may follow, especially as a way to circumvent trade protectionist measures.
私人直接投资可能会紧随其后, 特别是作为一种避开贸易保护主义措施的手段.
The crook tried to circumvent the little girl.
那恶棍想要欺骗这个小女孩.