2019-08-05 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

“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。

sentence

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

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

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

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

5. 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. 

practice

他非常自律，从来不曾偏离自己制定的目标和计划。

He is so disciplined that he has never deviated from his goals and plans.

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