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Перевод: diversion

[существительное]
отклонение; отвлечение; развлечение; отвод ; обход ; отвлекающий маневр

Тезаурус:

1. Meanwhile the gilded peacetime existence was only disturbed by occasional night raids of German Bombers, so light and haphazard they presented more of a diversion than a threat.
2. If the stick becomes obstructed that tells you that there is a diversion and you must dig at that point to determine the new direction.
3. His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there, while Jones himself landed, undetected it was hoped, on the south foreshore, put the battery there out of action and then, passing round the town, knocked out the North Battery, before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours.
4. In the name of justice (proportional response to petty offending), social workers were severely criticized, and encouraged to adopt non-intervention (diversion), or action focused on offending behaviour, not family issues.
5. Other hallowed encounters which I enjoyed, such as London Irish v Bedford, were for diversion merely.
6. In the end we chose Viseu as a diversion, because it had a VOR/DME and we could descend safely overhead to 1,500 feet agl above the airfield.
7. She preferred the hazards of local naval hospitals to leaving her husband and returning to England for each birth, but the strain of pregnancy in hot climates and the diversion of her own children made her willing to billet the older two on their aunt whenever it was convenient.
8. The ecological disaster created by the diversion of water from the Aral Sea for the sake of a better cotton crop has given that sort of thinking a severe knock.
9. To that extent the results reflect the basis upon which ASWs made decisions, which frequently involved diversion of GP referrals from compulsory admission.
10. Free tickets at the Harwich Electric Cinema provided a welcome diversion from camp routine, not to mention a painless method of learning English.
11. Yet when, after Poindexter's first day of testimony, the story-line reached its conclusion - no, the president had not been told of the diversion of funds to the contras - viewers fell away.
12. Indeed, just before his interview with Meese, he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely, McFarlane thought, to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record: "I put it in a memo to the Admiral."
13. A lengthy diversion is expected for northbound traffic on the A5 wishing to go east on the North Circular - via Cricklewood Lane and Hendon Way.