distract

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していたことや考えていたことから、人の注意をそらすこと。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： distract someone from something (The music distracted me from my work.); be distracted by something (She was distracted by a noise outside.)

類義語： divert, sidetrack

よく使う表現： distract someone, distract from something, distract with something