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Distract 4540.Distract 英 Dɪ'Strækt]美 Dɪ'Strækt 释义 Vt 转移;分心

正面 4540.distract
英 [dɪ'strækt]美 [dɪ'strækt]

背面
释义:
vt. 转移;分心
例句:
1. There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him.这个鬼地方根本没有什么东西可以让他分心。

1、dis- "apart, away" + tract-.2、字面意思为:draw in different directions.
distract 分心dis-, 分开,散开。-tract, 拉,伸,词源同attract ,contract. 引申词义分心,精神混乱。
distract (v.)mid-14c., "to draw asunder or apart, to turn aside" (literal and figurative), from Latin distractus, past participle of distrahere "draw in different directions," from dis- "away" (see dis-) + trahere "to draw" (see tract (n.1)). Sense of "to throw into a state of mind in which one knows not how to act" is from 1580s. Related: Distracted; distracting; distractedly; distractedness."

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