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

進(jìn)階篇：deviate 是不及物動詞，意思是偏離、背離，后面搭配介詞 from, 其后往往接 path, values, norm, route等詞。它的主語可以是人也可以是物。

他是個叛逆的人，中學(xué)時就開始偏離當(dāng)時很多學(xué)生的做法。

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

他自稱是理想主義者，但卻開始背離自己的原則了

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

蘋果一開始是一年發(fā)布一臺 iphone，后來偏離了這種做法。

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

《經(jīng)濟學(xué)人》用例：

1) Stock prices deviate from the 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.

應(yīng)用篇：

1) 翻譯：他非常自律，從不偏離自己制定的計劃和目標(biāo)。

Disciplined, he has never deviated from his goals and plans.?

2） 造句: 房子的建筑最終偏離了建筑師的設(shè)計。

The construction of the house ended up deviating from the architect's initial design.?