In emerging economies, rural communities are bypassing the wires and wooden poles that spread power.
2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
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(通常为更快地实现某事)越过,避开,绕开
If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly.
A bypass is a surgical operation performed on or near the heart, in which the flow of blood is redirected so that it does not flow through a part of the heart which is diseased or blocked.
If a surgeon bypasses a diseased artery or other part of the body, he or she performs an operation so that blood or other bodily fluids do not flow through it.