| 单词 | to distract the attention |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto distract the attention 3. To draw or turn away from actual position, destination, or purpose; to turn aside, or in another direction; to divert. (Now only in to distract the attention, to distract the mind, or the like.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > distract [verb (transitive)] > from a purpose, etc. withdraw1340 distractc1380 waive1390 wresta1400 to turn aside1535 avocate1543 detract1548 to turn off1573 take1574 swaya1593 to put out1616 to put off1631 sidetrack1887 to turn off1951 c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 84 We schulden be war to kepe hem soundeli, for bodeli þingis distractiþ men to kepe hem riȝt. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 65 On ee þai haue of waytynge, A-nodyr of trw sorow, qwhos lufe distractis þe wytt, peruertis & ouerturnes resone. 1612 W. Shute tr. T. de Fougasses Gen. Hist. Venice ii. 12 They might easily..distract him from the alliance with the French King. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 166 The Emperour..swears, That he will alianate, distract, or morgage nothing of those things which appertain to the Empire. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii. 62 The needle..being distracted, driveth that way where the greater & powerfuller part of the earth is placed. View more context for this quotation 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 52 Vice, distracting their delicious gifts To aims abhorr'd. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. v. 214 [This] distracts the mind from the sense of danger. 1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) ii. 35 To drive away all thoughts that would distract their attention. < as lemmas |
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