| 词汇 | excursive |
| 释义 | excursive adjective formaluk /ɪkˈskɜː.sɪv/ us /ɪkˈskɝː.sɪv/ excursiveadjective (WRITING OR SPEECH)often moving away from the main subject you are writing or talking about, and writing or talking about something else: She has an excursive mind that leaves nothing unexplored. Long excursive passages interrupt the logical progression of the argument. Synonym digressive The text follows a strict chronological order, but with some excursive sections in places. Digressing and being indirect or evasive bury the ledeidiom candy coat candy coating candy-coated circumlocution circumlocutory get on to/onto something glancingly gloss over something go off on a tangentidiom hedging implicit mealy-mouthed obscure parry prevaricate stray tangent unexpressed unvoiced excursiveadjective (MOVEMENT)biology literary or specialized moving away from the usual place or in many different directions: 散漫的 Then the excursive visitor arrived, who was frequently on the move and spent a restless evening.随后，这位散漫的访客来了，他频频走动，度过了一个躁动不安的夜晚。 A few of the dogs exhibited excursive behaviour and travelled more than 500 metres away from their release point. Some amoebae were observed to be less excursive than others in their movements. Excursive walking became part of his daily life. Changing direction about-face about-turn bear branch off break cut decoy divert someone/something to somewhere do an about-face do an about-turn excursively flippy regear reverse slew someone's back is turnedidiom swerve turn around turn off (something) wheel |
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