digression

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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

• Let's stick to here and now. At this moment, thoughts of Celia were a digression.
  此时此刻关于西莉亚的念头让人走神。
• 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。
• But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no reason why the knocking at the gate in Macbeth should produce any effect, direct or reflected.
  现在言归正传，我的思维能莫名地提供给我为什么《麦克白》里的深夜叩门之声会直接或间接地产生一些效果。
• However, here, I want to say a light digression.
  我还想说一点题外话可以吗。
• The following paragraphs are a necessary digression to define and illustrate several important vector operations.
  下面有必要先离题来确定和说明一些重要的矢量运算。
• 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。
• The audience cried the speaker down as soon as he started on a third digression.
  当发言人第三次扯到题外去时听众发出喊声，使他讲不下去。
• If the group sets a specific problem for itself, and then sets a tight deadline to come up with answers, the free digression of conversation will provide occasions in which people are surprised by their own minds.
  如果讨论组本身设定了一个具体的问题，同时也设置了一个得出解答的期限，那么人们在随意交谈的过程中，可能就会对自己的想法感到惊奇。
• Talking about money now would be a digression from the main purpose of this meeting.
  现在谈论钱就偏离了这次会议的主要目的。
• In other words, you're given to expect that you're going to see another horse that's going to be some other catastrophe, but you don't get that, you have a digression.
  也就是说，你期待，看到另一匹，代表其他灾难的马，但是这次例外了。