词汇 | digression |
释义 | digression noun[ C or U ] uk /daɪˈɡreʃ.ən/ us /daɪˈɡreʃ.ən/ the action of moving away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and writing or talking about something else: 跑题,离题 digression fromTalking about money now would be a digression from the main purpose of this meeting.现在谈论金钱将偏离这次会议的主要目的。 The book contains many interesting digressions about life in the last half-century of the regime.这本书包含许多关于该政权最后半个世纪生活的有趣的题外话。 See digress After this digression, she returned to the central issue. There are entertaining digressions on subjects such as the freight traffic of the London railway. The authors stray into lengthy digressions. 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 |
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