digression

n.  离题;脱轨

复数:digressions

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BNC.20770 / COCA.21375



柯林斯词典

  1. VERB 离题;偏离主题
    If you digress, 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。

双语例句

  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. This, however, is a digression, from which we must return to Socrates.
    然而,这些都是题外的话,我们还是回到苏格拉底的身上来吧。
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
  8. However, here, I want to say a light digression.
    我还想说一点题外话可以吗。
  9. The wreck was caused by the digression of the two ships.
    这次遇难事件是由两只轮船的脱离航道引起的。
  10. 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。
  11. 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。
  12. 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。
  13. A diversion from the main highway; a digression into irrelevant details; a deflection from his goal.
    从主要公路的一个转向;进入无关联细节的偏离。
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. This digression added to the liveliness of her talk.
    这一段插话使她的报告生动多了。
  17. In other words, you're given to expect that you're going to see another horse that's going to be some other catastrophe, but you don't get that, you have a digression.
    也就是说,你期待,看到另一匹,代表其他灾难的马,但是这次例外了。
  18. 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。
  19. 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。
  20. 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。
  21. 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。
  22. 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。
  23. Lou felt that they were wandering from the point, and that in digression Alexandra might unnerve him.
    娄感到他们离开了话题,而在闲扯中,亚历山德拉可能使他遭受挫折。
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. Of course, blaming the dollar is a digression.
    把问题归咎于美元当然有些离题。
  27. All this is a digression.
    这都是题外话。
  28. 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。
  29. 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。
  30. 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。

英英释义

noun

  1. wandering from the main path of a journey

      Synonym:    excursion

    1. 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

    2. a message that departs from the main subject

        Synonym:    asideexcursusdivagationparenthesis