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

• A diversion from the main highway; a digression into irrelevant details; a deflection from his goal.
  从主要公路的一个转向；进入无关联细节的偏离。
• 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。
• Cause one's ( or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression.
  使自己的（或别人的）意识或注意力从幻想或脱轨的状态中回到现实。
• In saying this I have been running into a digression;
  我在说这些的时候，已经陷入了循环。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The onboard responder antenna drops into or near the rail top which cause the train digression.
  车载应答器天线坠入铁轨或其附近，导致列车脱轨。
• 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。
• All this is a digression.
  这都是题外话。