divert

verb

1. 使转向；使绕道；转移
   to make sb/sth change direction
   1. Northbound traffic will have to be diverted onto minor roads.
      北行车辆将不得不绕次要道路行驶。
2. 改变（资金、材料等）的用途
   to use money, materials, etc. for a different purpose from their original purpose
3. 转移（某人）的注意力；使分心
   to take sb's thoughts or attention away from sth
   1. The war diverted people's attention away from the economic situation.
      战争把民众的注意力从经济状况上移开了。
4. 娱乐；供消遣
   to entertain people
   1. Children are easily diverted.
      孩子们很容易被逗乐。

1. V-ERG （使）转向；（使）绕道
   To divert vehicles or travellers means to make them follow a different route or go to a different destination than they originally intended. You can also say that someone or something diverts from a particular route or to a particular place.
   1. ...Rainham Marshes, east London, where a new bypass will divert traffic from the A13...
      伦敦东部的雷纳姆泽，那儿有一条新的旁道将会分流 A13 公路的交通
   2. During the strike, ambulances will be diverted to private hospitals...
      在罢工期间，救护车将被转到私人医院去。
   3. We diverted a plane to rescue 100 passengers...
      我们让一架飞机改变航线去营救 100 名乘客。
   4. She insists on diverting to a village close to the airport...
      她坚持改道去机场附近的一个村庄。
   5. The capital remained jammed with diverted traffic.
      尽管实行了交通分流，首都依旧很堵。

in AM, use 美国英语用 detour


2. VERB 改变(资金、资源)的用途;转移
   To divert money or resources means to cause them to be used for a different purpose.
   1. The government is trying to divert more public funds from west to east.
      政府正试图将更多的公共基金从西部转到东部。
   2. ...government departments involved in diverting resources into community care.
      负责将资源用于社区保健的政府部门
3. VERB 转接(电话)
   To divert a phone call means to send it to a different number or place from the one that was dialled by the person making the call.
   1. He instructed switchboard staff to divert all Laura's calls to him.
      他让总机接线员将劳拉所有的电话都转给他。
   2. Customers will only incur additional call charges if the call is diverted outside the UK.
      只有当电话被转接到英国之外，客户才会被加收额外的电话费。
4. VERB 转移，分散（注意力）
   If you say that someone diverts your attention from something important or serious, you disapprove of them behaving or talking in a way that stops you thinking about it.
   1. They want to divert the attention of the people from the real issues.
      他们想要把人们的注意力从真正的问题上转移开。
   2. The President needed to divert attention away from his own economic record.
      总统需要将人们的视线从他以往在经济上的表现上转移开。

1. During the strike, ambulances will be diverted to private hospitals
   在罢工期间，救护车将被转到私人医院去。
2. We diverted a plane to rescue 100 passengers
   我们让一架飞机改变航线去营救100名乘客。
3. She insists on diverting to a village close to the airport
   她坚持改道去机场附近的一个村庄。
4. The capital remained jammed with diverted traffic.
   尽管实行了交通分流，首都依旧很堵。
5. The government is trying to divert more public funds from west to east.
   政府正试图将更多的公共基金从西部转到东部。
6. He instructed switchboard staff to divert all Laura's calls to him.
   他让总机接线员将劳拉所有的电话都转给他。
7. Customers will only incur additional call charges if the call is diverted outside the UK.
   只有当电话被转接到英国之外，客户才会被加收额外的电话费。
8. They want to divert the attention of the people from the real issues.
   他们想要把人们的注意力从真正的问题上转移开。
9. The President needed to divert attention away from his own economic record.
   总统需要将人们的视线从他以往在经济上的表现上转移开。
10. For the Prime Minister, externalising the problem would divert attention from his domestic troubles
    对于首相而言，公开这一问题将可转移对他所面临的国内问题的注意力。
11. They divert the course of a river.
    他们使河流改道。
12. To prevent flooding, we shall have to divert the river from its course.
    为防止水涝，我们必须使河水改道。
13. Time lay heavily on his hands, so he went to the cinema to divert himself.
    他闲得无聊，只好去看场电影排遣排遣。
14. He whom riches and honours cannot corrupt nor poverty and obscurity divert, whom neither threats nor violence itself can bend& he it is that I call a great man.
    富贵不能淫，贫贱不能移，威武不能屈，此之谓大丈夫。（《孟子》）
15. Competition can divert your trade to other markets.
    竞争会使你的贸易转向其他市场。
16. Don't divert the subject into a side issue.
    别把话题转向枝节问题。
17. We're in a demanding business, with lots of deadlines and pressures that can divert our attention.
    我们在一个要求严格的工作中，存在大量的时间限期和转移我们注意力的压力。
18. Promote wellbeing in a recession and you will be accused of trying to divert attention from falling output.
    在经济衰退中致力提升民众幸福感，你会被指责为试图转移人们对GDP不断下降的关注。
19. Employees tried to divert the attention of the tiger from the visitor but to no avail, he said.
    他说，工作人员试图转移老虎对那名游客的注意力，但无济于事。
20. I think your purpose is to divert us from ours.
    我想你的目的是消遣我们。
21. It is forbidden to embezzle or divert the land compensation fees and other related expenses.
    禁止侵占、挪用被征用土地单位的征地补偿费用和其他有关费用。
22. Shale gas is also likely to divert investment in Britain from pricier but carbon-free nuclear and renewable-energy sources.
    页岩气也可能会使英国把对更昂贵能源的投资转向无碳核能源和可再生能源。
23. I've been ordered to divert to rangoon.
    我已经下命令转驶向仰光了。
24. And determine how best to use these resources for this compressed divert.
    和决定如何好好利用这些资源。
25. Bank rescues must not divert resources from protecting sovereign liquidity.
    不能让对银行的救助分流了用于保护主权流动性的财力。
26. They want to divert you from having it removed.
    他们想通转移你注意力而不把它移除。
27. She was really hungry, so the chicken and tarts served to divert her attention for a time.
    她真的饿慌了，因此鸡和馅饼暂时转移了她的注意力。
28. They engineered a news story to divert attention from the scandal.
    他们策划了一个新闻故事以转移人们对丑闻的注意力。
29. The government says this would "divert" the security services from their real job of seeking terrorists.
    政府说这将使得安全部门的注意力从搜寻恐怖分子的实际工作上“转移”。
30. No organization or individual shall intervene, embezzle and divert.
    任何组织和个人不得干涉、截留、挪用。

verb

1. send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one

2. turn aside

   Synonym:    deviate

3. withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions

   Synonym:    hive off

4. occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
   1. The play amused the ladies

   Synonym:    amusedisport