diversion

• n. 转移；消遣；分散注意力

来自diverse, 转开，转移，词义引申为消遣。比较disport.

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack

diversion (n.)

early 15c., "diverse condition;" c. 1600 "act of diverting," from Middle French diversion, from Late Latin diversionem (nominative diversio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin divertere (see divert).

Sense of "amusement, entertainment" is first recorded 1640s. Hence, divertimento (1823), from the Italian form; originally "a musical composition designed primarily for entertainment."

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

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On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t

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But there is also time for brief diversions onto bizarre ground, such as a discussion of the skyscraper index (which holds that a boom in skyscraper construction is a foolproof sign of an imminent recessio.

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Diversions will be signposted.

临时支路都将设置路标。

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The party will make a pleasant diversion.

晚会会是一个很不错的消遣。

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The city is full of diversions.

城市里各种娱乐活动比比皆是。

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a river diversion project

河流改道工程

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We made a short diversion to go and look at the castle.

我们绕了一小段路去参观城堡。

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the diversion of funds from the public to the private sector of industry

资金从公有企业向私有企业的转移

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For the government, the war was a welcome diversion from the country's economic problems.

政府欢迎这场战争，因为它转移了人们对国家经济问题的注意力。

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A smoke bomb created a diversion while the robbery took place.

劫案发生时，一枚烟雾弹转移了人们的视线。

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The whole argument is a diversion.

这场辩论分散了人们的注意力。

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Finger painting is very messy but an excellent diversion.

用手指画画是很脏，但却是一项极好的消遣。

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They turned back because of traffic diversions.

因为交通要临时绕行，他们掉头了。

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...the illegal diversion of profits from secret arms sales.

秘密军火交易所获利润的非法转移

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...the diversion of a ship to Lebanon with $8m worth of aluminium on board.

前往黎巴嫩的装有价值800万美元铝的船只改换航道

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The robbers threw smoke bombs to create a diversion...

劫匪扔烟幕弹来转移人们的视线。

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The enemy diversion you are not ignoring is the main attack.

那支你不加主意的敌军部队其实是攻击的主力.

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Within states using a riparian system to control consumptive uses , water diversion by domestic use.

通过河岸所有权制度可以在各州内控制各种对水进行损耗性使用的行为.

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We created a diversion to escape from prison.

我们为了越狱,声东击西,分散注意力.

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The diversion of a stream changed the land.

一条小溪的转向使这块土地发生了变化.

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The traffic diversion was due to accident on the main road.

车辆改道是因为干道上发生了交能事故.

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Strangers and travelers were welcome of diversion and brought news of the outside world.

陌生人和旅行者由于改变气氛而受到欢迎,他们也带来外界的消息.

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Since then a variety of control engineering, and water diversion works, erosion decreased.

此后由于各种控制工程和引水工程的进行, 侵蚀有所减小.

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Diversion Tunnel Engineering is tunnel engineering in the world at present.

隧洞工程的施工条件是非常复杂的,并且存在的不稳定因素比较多,安全隐患很大.

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Our party believes in encouraging cultural diversity, not diversion.

我们党鼓励多种文化, 而不是文化分歧.

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A diversion or deviation from a main topic a digression.

插话,插曲,穿插与讨论的主题无关的看法;离题话.

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Golf is my father's favourite diversion.

高尔夫球是我父亲最喜欢的娱乐.

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What starts as a casual diversion escalates into a passion that holds no bounds.

于1976年举行的纽约电影节亦因受非议而遭查禁首映.

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The enemy diversion you aare ignoring is the maain aattaack.

那支你以为是敌军疑兵而不加注意的部队恰恰就是敌人的攻击主力.

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High tariffs often cause a diversion of trade from one country to another.

高额关税常使贸易从一国转往另一国.

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The Yellow River is dry in parts because of unchecked water diversion by cities along path.

而黄河沿岸的城市不加限制地导流,造成河流的某些地段出现干涸.

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Shunt diversion flume is an effective method to clear silt by hydraulic energy.

分流冲沙是解决斗槽水力清淤的一种有效方法.

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