digression

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美

n.  离题；脱轨

复数：digressions　

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BNC.20770 / COCA.21375

柯林斯词典

• VERB 离题;偏离主题
  If youdigress, you move away from the subject you are talking or writing about and talk or write about something different for a while.
  1. I've digressed a little to explain the situation so far, so let me now recap...
     刚才我稍稍离题说明了迄今的情况，现在让我来概述一下。
  2. She digressed from her prepared speech to pay tribute to the President.
     她脱离了发言稿的主题，对总统给予了高度赞扬。

英英释义

noun

• wandering from the main path of a journey
  Synonym:excursion
• a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
  1. a diversion from the main highway
  2. a digression into irrelevant details
  3. a deflection from his goal
  Synonym:diversiondeviationdeflectiondeflexiondivagation
• a message that departs from the main subject
  Synonym:asideexcursusdivagationparenthesis

双语例句

• By my rambling digression, I perceive myself to be grown old.
  这么漫笔杂谈，我自觉有种年老之感。
• He's created an increasing level of anxiety and catastrophe with this, but that fifth seal there's kind of a digression.
  通过描写这些封印，他营造出一种渐增的，焦虑和灾难，不过第五道封印是个题外话。
• This, however, is a digression, from which we must return to Socrates.
  然而，这些都是题外的话，我们还是回到苏格拉底的身上来吧。
• The onboard responder antenna drops into or near the rail top which cause the train digression.
  车载应答器天线坠入铁轨或其附近，导致列车脱轨。
• However, here, I want to say a light digression.
  我还想说一点题外话可以吗。
• This digression added to the liveliness of her talk.
  这一段插话使她的报告生动多了。
• He says you need to stop being babies, you've been drinking milk, I'm going to give you some meat,; so we're going to go onto higher things; so that's a digression which is an invitation.
  他说你们不要再做婴孩了，你们一直在喝奶，我要给你们吃肉，于是我们就有了更高的层次；，这就是一段号召的题外话。
• The decades in between seemed almost a digression: the business, the marriage, the children.
  在这几十年间，奥特曼的生活似乎都与卢瓦河无关：做生意，结了婚，生孩子。
• The wreck was caused by the digression of the two ships.
  这次遇难事件是由两只轮船的脱离航道引起的。
• In saying this I have been running into a digression;
  我在说这些的时候，已经陷入了循环。