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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The fifth seal is actually a digression that tells you, the audience, that if you suffer in this present time it will be taken care of by God.
  第五道印实际上是题外话，它告诉读者，如果你现在正遭受不幸，上帝会来救你的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。