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digression

n.  离题;脱轨

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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

双语例句

  • 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。
  • This digression added to the liveliness of her talk.
    这一段插话使她的报告生动多了。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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, 'he added in a different tone.
    不过这都是题外话。他又换了口气说。
  • 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。