éluder

Quand j’apprenais mon métier, j’ai souvent trouvé qu’il était nécessaire de poser des questions, mais ceux avec qui je travaillais éludaient mes questions.
When I was learning my trade, I often found it necessary to ask questions, but some with whom I was working evaded my questions.
Je n’ai pas l’intention, toutefois, de tracer ici le cours de mes misérables dérèglements, – dérèglements qui défiaient toute loi et éludaient toute surveillance.
I do not wish, however, to trace the course of my miserable profligacy here—a profligacy which set at defiance the laws, while it eluded the vigilance of the institution.
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