distract
verb- distract somebody/something (from something)
to take somebody’s attention away from what they are trying to do synonym divert轉移(注意力);分散(思想);使分心 You're distracting me from my work. 你使我不能專心工作。 Don't talk to her—she's very easily distracted. 不要同她講話,她的注意力很容易分散。 It was another attempt to distract attention from the truth. 這又是企圖分散人們對事實真相的注意力。 He’s easily distracted from his work 他工作時注意力很容易分散。 an attempt to distract attention away from the real problems in the country 把注意力從國家的實際問題上轉移開的企圖
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’.