Christie used them to throw the reader off the scent of the real killer.

克里斯蒂用这些动机让读者猜不到真正的凶手。

You sound like a guilty party, who's trying to throw me off the scent.

您听起来像是有罪的一方，想要转移我的注意力。

Maybe you're the real quarry and he's only hunting me to throw you off the scent.

也许你才是他的目标追求我，不过是想打消你的警惕。

They do not even try to put us off the scent.

他们甚至不试图让我们远离气味。

But soon the sunning scavenger put them off the scent.

但很快狡猾的清道夫使他们失去线索。

Well, I can throw her off the scent for a while.

我可以暂时引开她的注意。

Still, I think it got them off the scent for a few days.

不过我想这足够让他们兜好几天圈子了。

So take your precautions, throw the enemy off the scent, go and fetch your papers and await my instructions.

所以大家小心点， 把敌人打散， 去取证件，等我吩咐。

First, he threw journalists off the scent—they thought he had planned a jaunt to the Scottish Highlands that day.

首先，他让记者们闻风丧胆——他们以为他那天计划去苏格兰高地短途旅行。

When he answered her question by saying Ruysbroek was just a guy he hadn't known in college he evidently meant to throw her off the scent.

当他回答她的问题时说 Ruysbroek 只是一个他在大学里不认识的人，他显然是想让她摆脱这种感觉。

Thanks to the magical alchemy of the aldehydes, I throw people off the scent, not evoking any one flower, to become " a woman's fragrance with a woman's scent" .

藉由魔法般的乙醛带来神祕变化，我让人们超脱香气，不再联想起任一种花香，升华为「一款闻起来像女人的香水」。

" We just need to wipe their memories, " said Harry. " It's better like that, it'll throw them off the scent. If we killed them it'd be obvious we were here."

“我们只要消除他们的记忆就行了，”哈利说道。”那样的话，他们追踪的线索就断了，如果我们杀了他们，那无疑是在暴露自己的位置。”

At times with their backs half turned and a dreamy look on their faces in order to put the terrible Bourdoncle off the scent, they would indulge in some sly gossip.

有时他们半转身，脸上带着梦幻般的神情，以便让可怕的布尔当公爵远离气味，沉迷于一些狡猾的八卦。

She must have noticed the eccentric life led by that lonely man, his nocturnal expeditions, his manner of walking in the streets and of throwing any who might follow him off the scent.

她一定注意到了那个孤独的人过着古怪的生活，他的夜间探险，他在街上行走的方式，以及让任何可能跟随他的人都无法察觉的方式。

They were at fault too, and off the scent. Although they had been so quiet since the first outbreak of the matter, that most people really did suppose it to have been abandoned as hopeless, nothing new occurred.

他们也有错，而且没有察觉到。虽然自从这件事第一次爆发以来他们一直很安静，以至于大多数人真的认为它已经无望而放弃了，但没有发生任何新的事情。