distract
verb /dɪˈstrækt/
/dɪˈstrækt/
动词形式
present simple I / you / we / they distract | /dɪˈstrækt/ /dɪˈstrækt/ |
he / she / it distracts | /dɪˈstrækts/ /dɪˈstrækts/ |
past simple distracted | /dɪˈstræktɪd/ /dɪˈstræktɪd/ |
past participle distracted | /dɪˈstræktɪd/ /dɪˈstræktɪd/ |
-ing form distracting | /dɪˈstræktɪŋ/ /dɪˈstræktɪŋ/ |
- distract somebody/something (from something) to take somebody’s attention away from what they are trying to do
synonym divert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
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- easily
- momentarily
- temporarily
- …
- (away) from
词源late 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’. - You're distracting me from my work.