0 to direct a person's attention away from an activity or subject towards another one that is less important:
1 the act of sidetracking someone, or an example of this:
I'm dealing with the points in order, but I keep going off on a sidetrack.
Letters are different to a conversation because you can continue without being interrupted with some sidetrack.
2 a short track where trains are kept when they are not being used:
3 a second oil well that is made on one side of the original oil well:
4 to direct (someone) away from an activity or subject toward another one that is often less important:
This objective is a sidetrack from what every producer's main purpose should be.
A westbound train plowed into a Santa Fe train that was moving east onto a sidetrack.
Their New York-to-Miami passenger train slammed into the train stopped on a sidetrack.
I'm thinking particularly about the place where you mention the authenticity debate, only to say that you won't be sidetracked by it.
They thus moved over a much wider range of tracks and sidetracks than one would guess from any historical description of their search.
What is precarious about the situation is that, if the country remains isolated, this will nourish extremist opinions and activity, which will sidetrack democratic development.
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使轉移注意力, 使轉換話題…
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