| 词汇 | deflect |
| 释义 | deflect verb uk /dɪˈflekt/ us /dɪˈflekt/ [ I or T ] to change direction after hitting something, or to cause something to do this : （使）转向，（使）偏斜 deflect offThe ball deflected off my shoulder, straight into the goal.球打在我的肩膀上反弹进了球门。 deflect a shotThe crowd cheered as the goalkeeper deflected the shot.当守门员把球挡出去的时候人们欢呼了起来。 deflect something away from somethingIf a huge meteor was heading towards us, our best hope could be to deflect it away from the Earth using a nuclear explosion. [ T ] to cause someone to change from or stop what they were intending to do: deflect someone from somethingHis initial defeats did not deflect him from his ambitions. She listens to him, but doesn't allow herself to be deflected from her purpose. We will continue with our plans and not be deflected by the attacks. [ T ] to avoid something such as criticism, blame, or a question being directed at you: deflect criticism The president deflected criticism of his economic record by focusing on crime. deflect blame He successfully deflected blame for his mismanagement of the crisis. deflect a questionI just tried to deflect questions the best way I could. [ I or T ] psychology specialized to attack or blame another person rather than accepting criticism or blame for your own actions: When someone deflects, they are trying to feel less guilty, avoid negative consequences, and put the blame on others. The guilty person deflects their guilt onto the person who is accusing them or onto another person. Related word deflection She uses her long arms to distract shooters and deflect passes. Screens deflect fish away from the dams' turbines. Most of the stream of high-energy radiation coming from the Sun is deflected by Earth's magnetic field. Let your boss realize that nothing is going to deflect you from reaching your objectives. The administration tried to deflect criticism of its environmental record by focusing on troubles in Congress. They painted him as the victim of a malicious smear campaign, thus deflecting the spotlight from his lack of experience. The abuser immediately responds to any discussion or confrontation of his actions by deflecting the focus onto the survivor's behaviour. Being friends with someone who deflects onto you can damage your mental health and self-esteem. Here are some signs your partner may be deflecting responsibility for what goes wrong in your relationship. Changing direction about-face about-turn bear branch off break cut decoy do an about-face do an about-turn excursive excursively flippy regear reverse slew someone's back is turnedidiom swerve turn around turn off (something) wheel You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Goals and purposes Avoiding action Blaming & accusing deflect | American Dictionarydeflect verb[ T ] us/dɪˈflekt/ to cause something to change direction, or to suddenly go in a different direction: The ionosphere deflects radio waves. fig. The mayor deflected (= did not answer directly) questions about his political plans. deflectionnoun[ U ]us/dɪˈflek·ʃən/ Examples of deflectdeflect His intent focus on the singer's offstage poise suggests how much he has yet to learn about striking a pose and deflecting the gaze. Suppose the stock of knowledge could be improved to permit deflecting or destroying the meteor before it caused harm. There is a hard centre of otherness that deflects the hearer's projections. It has been shown that the electrons deflected during the interaction, could scatter on the walls of the experimental chamber, and fake a high-energy signal. These involve critiques of middle-class claims to disinterested universalism of values for veiling class interest and deflecting attention away from class conflict. Thus, ongoing circumstances may support pursuance of potentially deviating developmental pathways or deflect the individual back toward more normal adaptation. This acts to deflect the electrons into the region of higher electric field, increasing the field generation. Indeed, not only are their envelopes similarly deflected from their progression, but they share the same spatial and spectral progression towards a specific horizontal point. Large gradients of electron density in this plasma deflect laser rays from their initial trajectories, thus deforming substantially the laser intensity distribution on the target. In this way, much of the otherwise suppressed and deflected hostility between female affinal and kin relations is expressed through reciprocation and non-reciprocation in gham-khadi. Here the median and peak of the temperature distribution are deflected towards the largescale turbulence region. Nonetheless, it would not be wise to deflect attention completely from paediatric cardiac surgery. In this device, the r coordinate oscillation is generated by a conventional galvo-scanner deflecting the beam out of the optical axis. Throughout the ages, political entrepreneurs have sought, often with considerable success, to deflect blame for their country's woes to powerless groups. Public attention to the unsustainability of this trend is deflected by the wartime rhetoric. 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