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Перевод: divert
[глагол] отклонять; отводить; сбивать; отвлекать; отвлекать внимание; развлекать; забавлять
Тезаурус:
- At some point in February 1986 Poindexter apparently made a decision, crucial to the story, not to tell the President about the plan to divert Iranian arms money to the contras.
- The public good defence for performances which were proved to be "in the interests of drama, opera, ballet or any other art, or of literature or learning" omitted the words "or other objects of general concern", thereby rejecting the so-called "therapeutic defence" according to which pornography was claimed to be "psychologically beneficial" to some persons "in that it relieves their sexual tensions and may divert them from anti-social activities".
- But he can't resist going on a teensy-weensy shopping spree with Marlon, which involves going into a jewellers, pretending to be gay and, to divert inquiries, sneezing copiously over an assistant who is terrified they are transmitting Aids.
- The original Warwickshire lord and his huntsmen have been replaced by groups of young Sloanes who identify the sleeping Sly as "probably working-class" and divert themselves by "messing around with his mind a bit".
- Keep to the outer side of pavements and be prepared to walk or divert past any dodgy dog.
- George found that his position enabled him to divert a little of the firm's money into his own pocket.
- She made a mental note to listen more attentively to her lessons in biology and in Marxism, and then, to divert Omi from the views she was expressing, Erika said: "Uncle Karl will be back soon, Omi.
- "And, anyway, there must be something good on at two o'clock to divert you.
- It is perhaps a shame to divert attention and energy away from the act of making and being, toward analysis of how your makings and be-ing (what you make and who you are) are received by those who are empowered to see them.
- Unless we can devise an approach which recognises the need to incur such costs, the market's short-term mentality will continue to undervalue good and profitable companies and the fear of takeover to divert management from its most important tasks.
- I said, "If there is naught else in Paradise for me but this delight which I have in my own nature, no other blessing will I want and not even the houris and sugarcane of Paradise will divert me from it.'"
- We must also divert money from the expensive irrelevancies of poster campaigns and media triumphalism towards full-time agencies and local party-building.
- While denying the importance of industrial training as the "principal" remedy for unemployment, he looked to technical education to raise the general level of skill "from which men start", as well as to divert juvenile labour (which he described as "adaptable") into new and growing trades.
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