To work all the time--why, as Jennings said, that took away all the freshness, made one stale and unfit. A little distraction--always, of course, with musical people, people who talked and thought and did music--that sort of distraction was quite as much a part of her education as the singing lessons. Brindley, certainly a sensible and serious woman if ever there was one--Mrs. Brindley believed so, and it must be so.英文原著 · 《The Price She Paid》
But he must needs have a distraction from the respectability of his life. Everybody was at his feet; he was Deacon of his Guild, at an age whereat his fellows were striving to earn a reputable living; his masterpieces were fashioned, and the wrights' trade was already a burden. To go upon the cross seemed a dream of freedom, until he snapped his fingers at the world, filled his mouth with slang, prepared his alibi, and furnished him a whole wardrobe of disguises.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
LADY HUNSTANTON. that is always a nice distraction, in it not? Now, what are you talking about, Lord Illingworth? Do tell us.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
Spring came, and with the spring the Marquise found distraction from her deep melancholy. She busied herself for lack of other occupation with her estate, making improvements for amusement.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"Ask thyself," she wrote, "whether felicity comes with her presence, and distraction with her absence,--whether her eyes make the morning brighter for thee, and her tears fall upon thy heart like molten lava,--whether heaven would be black and dismal without her company, and the flames of hell turn into roses under her feet."英文原著 · 《Beauty and The Beast》
For a few days in early May we are forcibly reminded of the Florida peninsula, which fairly teems with these birds; they become almost superabundant, a distraction during the precious days when the rarer species are quietly slipping by, not to return again for a year, perhaps longer, for some warblers are notoriously irregular in their routes north and south, and never return by the way they travelled in the spring.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
This was just supposed to be a temporary distraction till we got back to the cupcake thing.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》