Diversion
[daɪ'vɜːʃ(ə)n;dɪ-] or [daɪ'vɝʒn]
解释:
(noun.) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); 'a diversion from the main highway'; 'a digression into irrelevant details'; 'a deflection from his goal'.
(noun.) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; 'scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists'; 'for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles'; 'drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation'.
(noun.) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack.
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解释:
(n.) The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
(n.) That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth.
(n.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.
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同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Turning aside.[2]. Amusement, recreation, pastime, sport, play, entertainment, relaxation.
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同义词及反义词:
SYN:Detour, divergence, deviation, recreation, amusement, pastime, sport, enjoyment
ANT:Continuity, directness, procedure, business, task, work, study, labor,avocation
手打:玛丽安
解释:
n. act of diverting or turning aside: that which diverts: amusement recreation: something done to turn the attention of an enemy from the principal point of attack.
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例句:
- This was a matter of diversion to my master and his family, as well as of mortification to myself. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The diversion accomplished the purpose. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The water thus discharged passes through a diversion channel in the old bed of the Chagres River, generating, by an enormous electric plant, the power necessary for operating the locks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- My youngest daughter, Lavinia,' said Mrs Wilfer, glad to make a diversion, as that young lady reappeared. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Pray, Mr Headstone, what is the name,' he asked, again trying to make a diversion, 'of young Hexam's sister? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Sherman and McPherson were both ordered to renew their assaults as a diversion in favor of McClernand. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- He was usually a great eater, and I wished to give myself some diversion in half starving him. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Towards the close of the speech there came a pleasing diversion my attention was again amusingly arrested. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- That is why their issues are so sterile; that is why the absorption in next steps is a diversion from statesmanship. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Thrasymachus is on the brink of the inevitable conclusion, when he makes a bold diversion. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- There is likewise another diversion, which is only shown before the emperor and empress, and first minister, upon particular occasions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Supper, What good have { 8} music, or diversion, or conversation. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Tell her, her husband wants liveliness, diversion: put her on amusing tactics. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- On the morning of the 27th I ordered him to create a diversion by moving his corps up the Yazoo and threatening an attack on Haines' Bluff. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- There is no reason, however, for using them merely as agreeable diversions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- I would exactly set down the several changes in customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- A river bank may be beautiful and teeming with diversions, but if the river is used as a source of drinking water, the results will almost always be fatal to some. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Edison's diversions in Cincinnati were chiefly those already observed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Bull-fights are among the favorite diversions of the Spaniards. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Public diversions have always been the objects of dread and hatred to all the fanatical promoters of those popular frenzies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The second of those remedies is the frequency and gaiety of public diversions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The diversions of the court of Lilliput described. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
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