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

• 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。
• Lou felt that they were wandering from the point, and that in digression Alexandra might unnerve him.
  娄感到他们离开了话题，而在闲扯中，亚历山德拉可能使他遭受挫折。
• Then after that digression then you have this seventh seal which is really kind of anticlimactic.
  在这题外话之后，是第七道印，相当虎头蛇尾。
• 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。
• 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。
• This digression added to the liveliness of her talk.
  这一段插话使她的报告生动多了。
• In that speech in Alexandria, though, Nasser chose to delve back even further into history, in a long digression on the building of the Suez canal a century earlier.
  但是，在亚历山大港的那次演说，纳赛尔选择的是远远的向回探究历史，离题很远地谈到了早在一个世纪之前苏伊士运河的修建。
• 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。
• Of course, blaming the dollar is a digression.
  把问题归咎于美元当然有些离题。
• 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。