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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• All this is a digression.
  这都是题外话。