digression

英

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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• However, here, I want to say a light digression.
  我还想说一点题外话可以吗。
• 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。
• The fifth seal has something like a digression, the fifth seal is not another horse like you expect.
  第五道印是个题外话，没有意想中的马。
• 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。
• 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。
• All this is a digression.
  这都是题外话。
• Of course, blaming the dollar is a digression.
  把问题归咎于美元当然有些离题。