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To detract from something means to make it seem less good, less impressive, or less valuable — almost always used with 'from': 'the loud music detracted from the movie.' It usually describes one small negative thing lowering the overall value of something that's otherwise good.
減損；使遜色(常接from)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
detractverb/dɪˈtɹækt/
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To take away; to withdraw or remove.
- The improvement here patented consists in so arranging the parts of an ever pointed pencil case, that the point which holds the pencil shall be obtruded and detracted without having a slot in the side, which a ferrule and pin to draw it down, as is ordinarily done.
- The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.
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To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.
- That calumnious critic […] / Detracting what laboriously we do.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。