Distraction
[dɪ'strækʃ(ə)n] or [dɪ'strækʃən]
解释:
(noun.) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something; 'conjurers are experts at misdirection'.
(noun.) mental turmoil; 'he drives me to distraction'.
(noun.) an obstacle to attention.
整理:梅纳德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
(n.) That which diverts attention; a diversion.
(n.) A diversity of direction; detachment.
(n.) State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity.
(n.) Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions.
(n.) Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair.
(n.) Derangement of the mind; madness.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Confusion, perplexity, embarrassment, bewilderment, abstraction, mystification.[2]. Disturbance, discord, tumult, disorder, division, perturbation, commotion, turmoil, agitation.[3]. Derangement, madness, raving, insanity, alienation, aberration, incoherence, wandering, delirium, mania, lunacy, raving, hallucination, loss of the senses, disordered intellect or faculties, loss of reason.
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同义词及反义词：
SYN:Inattention, madness, absence
ANT:Attention, composure
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例句:
- I loved her at that minute to distraction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Paul cast at these implements; he hated them mortally, considering sewing a source of distraction from the attention due to himself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Do you object to such a piece of distraction remaining where she is? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favor, conduced to my distraction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- It was Poland that suffered by the distraction of France. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Having nothing, so it is thought, to do with mental activity, it becomes a distraction, an evil to be contended with. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Comme cela, said she: he is handsome, and he loves me to distraction, so that I am well amused. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Can there be any greater evil than discord and distraction and plurality where unity ought to reign? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I have tried again and again to point out the iconoclasm that is constantly necessary to avoid the distraction that comes of idolizing our own methods of thought. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But her temper was fluctuating; joy for a few instants shone in her eyes, but it continually gave place to distraction and reverie. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The greatest good of a State is unity; the greatest evil, discord and distraction. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Political inventors are to-day largely unconscious of their purpose, and, so, defenceless against the distraction of their routineer enemies. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I should always love her, every minute, to distraction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- He also advised me to be composed; I scorned the insinuation of helplessness and distraction, shook off his hand, and began to walk about again. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I am very busy just now, and I desire no distractions, my friend answered. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
校对:蒂米