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digression

n.  离题;脱轨

复数:digressions 

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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

双语例句

  • 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。
  • There I was, clerking for Justice O'Connor, and I was haunted by a feeling that it was all a digression.
    是的,我在为康奥纳大法官工作,而我被一种一切都偏离的感觉所缠绕。
  • 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。
  • If the group sets a specific problem for itself, and then sets a tight deadline to come up with answers, the free digression of conversation will provide occasions in which people are surprised by their own minds.
    如果讨论组本身设定了一个具体的问题,同时也设置了一个得出解答的期限,那么人们在随意交谈的过程中,可能就会对自己的想法感到惊奇。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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 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, 'he added in a different tone.
    不过这都是题外话。他又换了口气说。
  • 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。