Diversion

(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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• 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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