| 词汇 | digress |
| 释义 | digress verb[ I ] uk /daɪˈɡres/ us /daɪˈɡres/ to move away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and to write or talk about something else: 跑题，离题 But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs.我跑题了。回到我刚才说过的话上来，这首诗反映了诗人对大自然的热爱和自己的宗教信仰。 digress fromThe lecturer temporarily digressed from her subject to deal with a related theory.讲师暂时将她的主题放在一边，开始讲起了另一相关理论。 Compare sidetrackverb Digressing and being indirect or evasive bury the ledeidiom candy coat candy coating candy-coated circumlocution circumlocutory f-bomb get on to/onto something glancingly gloss over something go off on a tangentidiom implicit obscure parry prevaricate stray tangent tiptoe around something/someone unexpressed unvoiced Related worddigression digress | American Dictionarydigress verb[ I ] fmlus/dɑɪˈɡres/ (in speech or writing) to move away from the main subject and discuss something else: He digressed from his subject in order to criticize the accuracy of a newspaper story. digressionnoun[ C ]us/dɑɪˈɡreʃ·ən, dɪ-/ His speech was full of digressions about his time in the army. Examples of digressdigress I have allowed you a procedural motion in which you have also digressed and indulged in name-calling. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I regret that for a time we have digressed in this regard. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us try to consider the matter without digressing into the entirely different issues of asylum seekers and refugees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I offer no apology for digressing and asking why government exists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have digressed during the last two or three minutes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I may be digressing slightly but it is an important point. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have digressed slightly from our central concern about the effect on the deutschmark of the reunification process. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said in his article that the exercise was so important that it was worth digressing in order to outline it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I apologise for having digressed in response to interventions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would not dream of digressing into that or other areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I apologise for having digressed in this way upon matters which really are irrelevant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I beg forgiveness myself for digressing just a little from the main report. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are digressing from the subject of the debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one digresses a little on the cost of living for the elderly, one could mention the extraordinary arrangements that we have for radio and television licences. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have digressed for long enough. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of digress These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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