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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This digression added to the liveliness of her talk.
  这一段插话使她的报告生动多了。
• 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。
• Of course, blaming the dollar is a digression.
  把问题归咎于美元当然有些离题。
• 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 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。