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Перевод: distract
[глагол] отвлекать; рассеивать; развлекать; сбивать с толку; приводить в смятение; расстраивать; смущать
Тезаурус:
- She tried to distract him as best she could, showing him how to make totems, begging Urran to let Nathan use the computer now and again.
- The lofty official view is that the agitators in favour of an entirely fresh deal - or preferably none at all - with the CFTC command little support among the membership and distract the association from grappling with real issues such as Globex, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's putative electronic trading system.
- For example, you may ignore her persistent whining for attention after one constructive attempt to distract her by suggesting a pleasant and diverting activity (after all, you re having to see to the baby).
- "We need a decoy to distract their attention.
- Triumphantly she extracted a navy-blue cotton dress with a big white sailor collar, presumably to distract from the bulge.
- You can often distract your child before his rage builds up to bursting point.
- I would simply suggest that we should not allow either sentimentality or a genuine concern for retaining decentralized powers in general to distract us from the major, and separate, task of attempting to determine a common policy for all education at all stages in the future.
- He even ended up inventing women - he is a very good story teller - to distract his mother's jealousy from Veza, the amazing woman under whose spell he fell (and who, in part three of the autobiography, he marries).
- At least there was soon to be a bit of activity in the neighbourhood to distract the young lad's attention: in June of 1797 Charles the Cheesemonger was to achieve the singular distinction of being mentioned, en passant , in an Act of Parliament.
- It would certainly distract the attention of the powerful commercial groups that are about to join battle over cable television networks.
- Elisabeth smiled, hoping to lighten the conversational tone and distract the Colonel from his purpose.
- Writer Jane Roberts, who channelled Seth, says that she tended to ignore any desires which might distract her from her creative work, so she used to suppress the impulse to take physical exercise.
- Because they distract the candidate, and you yourself may miss something important while noting a previous point, notetaking should be kept to a minimum during the interview.
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