deviate: to change what you are doing so that you are not following an expected plan, idea, or type of behavior
进阶篇：deviate 是不及物动词，意思是偏离、背离，后面搭配介词 from, 其后往往接 path, values, norm, route等词。它的主语可以是人也可以是物。
他是个叛逆的人，中学时就开始偏离当时很多学生的做法。
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原则了
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。
Apple deviated from its practice of rolling out one new iPhone a year.
《经济学人》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.
应用篇：
1) 翻译：他非常自律，从不偏离自己制定的计划和目标。
Disciplined, he has never deviated from his goals and plans.
2） 造句: 房子的建筑最终偏离了建筑师的设计。
The construction of the house ended up deviating from the architect's initial design.
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