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- distract somebody/something (from something)
to take somebody’s attention away from what they are trying to do 转移（注意力）；分散（思想）；使分心 You're distracting me from my work. 你使我不能专心工作。 🔊🔊 Don't talk to her—she's very easily distracted. 不要同她讲话，她的注意力很容易分散。 🔊🔊 It was another attempt to distract attention from the truth. 这又是企图分散人们对事实真相的注意力。 🔊🔊 He’s easily distracted from his work 他工作时注意力很容易分散。 an attempt to distract attention away from the real problems in the country 把注意力从国家的实际问题上转移开的企图
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- easily
- momentarily
- temporarily
- …
- (away) from
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘pull in different directions’): from Latin distract- ‘drawn apart’, from the verb distrahere, from dis- ‘apart’ + trahere ‘to draw, drag’.