0 to make someone stop giving their attention to something:
Don't distract her (from her studies).
He tried to distract attention from his own illegal activities.
1 to take someone’s attention away from what that person is doing or should be doing:
The teacher had to separate the two friends because they tend to distract each other in class.
Shoplifters often work in pairs, with one creating a diversion to distract the shop assistants while the other steals the goods.
Can you stop tapping your foot please - it's distracting me while I'm working.
Sorry, what were you saying? Something outside the window distracted me.
If the TV is distracting you from your homework, turn it off.
It tends to distract faculty into emphasizing profitable research and to neglect their teaching duties.
In both cases, however, such encoding tricks distract from and complicate the semantic analysis.
This attitude has distracted attention away from the educational benefits of asynchronous electronic communication.
中文繁体
使分心,使轉移注意力,干擾…
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使分心,使转移注意力,干扰…
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distraer…
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desviar, distrair…
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(人の注意)をそらす…
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dikkatini/ilgisini başak yöne çekmek, dikkatini dağıtmak…
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distraire (l’attention), distraire…
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distreure…
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