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

• After this digression we return now to our original problem.
  在这一段插话以后，现在回到原来的问题。
• All this is a digression, 'he added in a different tone.
  不过这都是题外话。他又换了口气说。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• This digression added to the liveliness of her talk.
  这一段插话使她的报告生动多了。
• There I was, clerking for Justice O'Connor, and I was haunted by a feeling that it was all a digression.
  是的，我在为康奥纳大法官工作，而我被一种一切都偏离的感觉所缠绕。
• You have these four building up of terrible things, and the fifth is a digression that gives you comfort.
  前四道印用一系列可怕灾难作铺垫，第五道印是给人以安慰的题外话。