distract

ablenken

Die Aufmerksamkeit einer Person von dem abbringen, was sie gerade tut oder denkt.

In einfachem Englisch: To make someone stop paying attention to what they were doing or thinking about.

• Please do not distract me.
• A loud crash distracted him from his reading.
• She told jokes to distract the children while they waited.

So benutzt man es: distract someone from something (The music distracted me from my work.); be distracted by something (She was distracted by a noise outside.)

Synonyme: divert, sidetrack

Häufige Wendungen: distract someone, distract from something, distract with something