digression

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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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• All this is a digression.
  这都是题外话。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。