divert public attention

基本解释

This story is a red herring to divert public attention from this issue。
這故事不過是用來轉移公衆的注意力的。
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She dished up the anti-pollution business to divert the attention of the public.
她把防止汙染的事情說得十分重要，以便轉移公衆的注意。
dict.cn
When it looks like a ploy to divert the public’s attention, too much talk can be corrosive, harming civil society and eroding trust in public institutions—exactly when it is most needed.
但它被發覺衹是一種用來轉移公衆注意力的把戯時，說得太多衹會壞事兒，在傷害公民社會的同時又破壞了公共機搆的公信力----而這正是他們此時最迫切需要的。

Nationalist fervour may be helping to divert public attention away from the party's mishandling of Tibet—a remote problem in the minds of many Chinese.
ECONOMIST: China
Even more important than its usefulness as a tool to divert the public's attention away from the failure of his Iran policy, Obama's assault against Israel may well be aimed at maintaining that failed policy.
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