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1. 这是个什么词?


词:deviate


英英释义:to change what you are doing so that you are not following an expected plan, idea, or type of behavior


例句:A self-claimed idealist, he is deviating from his beliefs/principles.


2. 为什么选这个词?


deviate”是不及物动词,意思是“偏离、背离”,后面搭配介词 from,后面往往接 path, values, norm, route 等词。它的主语可以是人也可以是物。这是个很好用的词,可以体现出使用者的词汇质量。我们通过下面几个例子来掌握这个词。


他是个叛逆的人,在中学时就开始偏离了当时很多学生的做法,可以说:

He is a rebellious person and started to deviate from the conventional path everyone else was following.


他自称是理想主义者,但却开始背离自己的信念/原则了,就可以说:

A self-claimed idealist, he is deviating from his beliefs/principles.


苹果一开始是一年发布一台 iPhone, 后来偏离了这种做法,可以说:

Apple deviated from its practice of rolling out one new iPhone a year.


最后来看《经济学人》中出现 deviate 的两个句子:

1)Stock prices deviate from this fair value only because investors over-react to news.


2)But even if quantum’s spring turns to winter, the chances are high that there will eventually be a summer. That has happened often enough in the past. To use a concept developed by Carlota Perez, an economic historian, revolutionary technologies always go through a “gilded age”, often accompanied by an investment bubble that pops, before entering a “golden age” of widespread deployment. There is little reason to believe that quantum computing will deviate from that path.


3. 怎样学会使用这个词?


1)翻译下面的句子:


他非常自律,从来不曾偏离自己制定的目标和计划。

He is self- disciplined, never deviating the goal or plan made by himself.

造句

Some scientists have already deviated from the original intentions of gene editing.


(参考翻译:Disciplined, he has never deviated from his goals and plans.)

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