distract
verb- 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
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’.