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

• However, here, I want to say a light digression.
  我还想说一点题外话可以吗。
• Of course, blaming the dollar is a digression.
  把问题归咎于美元当然有些离题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。