sidetracked

英 [ˈsaɪdtrækt]

美 [ˈsaɪdtrækt]

v.  使转变话题; 使转移目标
sidetrack的过去分词和过去式

过去式：sidetracked　

COCA.34162

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使分散思路;使转变话题;使转移目标
  If youare sidetrackedby something, it makes you forget what you intended to do or say, and start instead doing or talking about a different thing.
  1. He'd managed to avoid being sidetracked by Schneider's problems...
     他最终总算没有因施奈德的问题而分心。
  2. The leadership moved to sidetrack the proposal...
     领导层采取行动来转移对该提议的关注。
  3. They have a tendency to try to sidetrack you from your task.
     他们总试图让你从你的任务中分心。

双语例句

• But let's not get sidetracked in an irrelevant discussion of whether the average American is active enough on the global economic an political stage.
  不过我们还是不要讨论“一般的美国人是否在世界经济和政治舞台上足够活跃”这种无关紧要的问题了。
• They got sidetracked and attacked other cells.
  但是它们转移了攻击目标。
• Of dozens of new investment-grade and junk-bond issues that had been scheduled for the weeks after labor day, most have been sidetracked.
  在拟定于9月份劳工节之后几周进行的数十桩新的投资级和垃圾债券发行中，大部分都已经被搁置了。
• The children were sidetracked by the television and didn't do their homework.
  孩子们被电视吸引过去，不做功课了。
• The students sidetracked their teacher into talking about her hobby.
  学生们让老师将话题转到谈论她的业余爱好。
• Ruth was looking for an envelope in a drawer when she was sidetracked by some old letters.
  露丝在抽屉里找信封时，被一些旧信吸引住了。
• I told him how I'd been sidetracked by Mr starke.
  我告诉他刚才我怎样被斯塔克先生分了心。
• Focus on basic issues and do not get sidetracked with secondary issues or defending your denomination.
  主要讨论基本问题，不要转到次要问题，或仅仅捍卫您的教派。
• We were supposed to be discussing the building plans but we got sidetracked into talking about politics.
  我们假定讨论建筑平面图以使我们进入比较适当的谈论边缘。
• Large meetings tend to offer too much information at once, and attendees can get sidetracked.
  大型会议经常是一次性提供太多的信息，参与者可能会跑题。