The war did not deflect him from the path he had long ago taken.

战争没有使他改变很久之前就选择的道路。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

All attempts to deflect attention from his private life have failed.

本想转移人们对他私生活的注意，但一切努力都失败了。

《牛津词典》

The only thing that could deflect her from work, she once wrote, was "being in love", whereupon everything else flew out the window.

唯一可以让她从工作中脱离出来的，她曾经写道，就是“恋爱”，因此，生命中难免会会失去其它一些东西。

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But O'Neil says the Obama administration must not allow Mr.Calderon's criticism to deflect attention from joint U.S.-Mexican successes, especially in the war on drugs.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

I think that we should be very careful not to let that deflect us from the recognition that this is important technology and that it's not the technology that's at fault; we have to get it right and then it will be powerful.

但我认为,我们应该警惕,不要因此对金融产生误解,事实上金融是门重要的应用技术,而且这一切并不是科技本身的错,我们应该完善这项技术,使其发挥正面作用

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Mr Nesbitt said nothing should deflect from marking "the memory of two brave citizens".

BBC: Mike Nesbitt

To deflect from that by misleading people to think that this was an attack on Obama, where there is just no evidence of that at all.

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This would be "better for the country" than a "rash of by-elections which I think would actually kind of deflect from the need that everyone feels for a general election, " he added.

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