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

• Of course, blaming the dollar is a digression.
  把问题归咎于美元当然有些离题。
• The following paragraphs are a necessary digression to define and illustrate several important vector operations.
  下面有必要先离题来确定和说明一些重要的矢量运算。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• However, here, I want to say a light digression.
  我还想说一点题外话可以吗。
• Then after that digression then you have this seventh seal which is really kind of anticlimactic.
  在这题外话之后，是第七道印，相当虎头蛇尾。
• All this is a digression.
  这都是题外话。
• 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。